Garden Buildings and Monuments
Hawksmoor also designed a number of structures for the gardens at Castle Howard these are:
- The Pyramid (1728)
- The Mausoleum (1729–40) built on the same scale as his London churches, it is almost certainly the first free-standing mausoleum built in Western Europe since the fall of the Roman empire.
- The Carrmire Gate, (c.1730)
- The Temple of Venus (1731-5) demolished
At Blenheim Palace he designed the Woodstock Gate (1723) in the form of a Triumphal arch. He also designed the obelisk in Ripon market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain.
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