The case of the Enville Museum

• Autores: Timothy Mowl
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 3, Nº 2, 1983, págs. 134-143
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An 18th-century garden building that has been known variously as the "Gothick Greenhouse", the "Gothick Summer-House", the "Billiard Room" and most recently as the "Museum", stands in sad decay in the grounds of Enville Hall, Staffordshire. Its roofless shell and shattered windows have little to hide except the name of its designer. Until recently this had been in no doubt; most architectural historians had accepted without question that it was the work of Sanderson Miller. Shenstone's letters of 1750, in which the poet mentions a "Gothic Greenhouse" being built at Enville "by Mr. Miller's direction", had been quoted in evidence and when Bishop Pococke visited the park in 1756 and saw "an elegant Gothick summer house of Mr. Miller's design" the case was closed - the Enville Greenhouse/Summer-House (notice the tacit acceptance of this change of name and function) became one of the more significant works of Miller's oeuvre.