Sanderson Miller (1716 – 23 April 1780) was an English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer. He is noted for adding follies or other Picturesque garden buildings and features to the grounds of an estate.

thumb|right|upright=1.1|[[Wimpole's Folly, a mock semi-ruined castle designed by Miller, on the grounds of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire]]

Early life

Miller was the son of a wool merchant of the same name, High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1728, who died in 1737. He was born, lived and died at Radway, on the Warwickshire estate bought by his father in 1712. |group="nb" and they had six children: Fiennes, Charles, Susanna, Mary, Hester and Anna.

thumb|right|200px|The Wimpole Hall mock castle in its setting

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Farnborough_Hall_North.jpg|Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire

Warwick Shire Hall and County Court building.jpg|Shire Hall, Warwick

Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire - geograph.org.uk - 11408.jpg|Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, Sanderson's Great Hall on left

Croome Court07.jpg|Croome Court, Worcestershire

Hagley Hall.jpg|Hagley Hall, Worcestershire

Ralph Allens Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1762356.jpg|Ralph Allen's sham castle overlooking Bath

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Notes

References

Sources

  • William Hawkes, The Diaries of Sanderson Miller (Dugdale 2005)

Further reading

  • Jennifer Meir, Sanderson Miller and his Landscapes (Phillimore 2006)
  • Michael Cousins, "Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire: an eighteenth-century estate", Follies Journal, no 5 (2005), pp.&nbsp;39–72.
  • Michael Cousins, "The sham ruin, Hagley", Follies Magazine, vol. 10, no. 1 (1998), pp.&nbsp;3–4.
  • Michael Cousins, "Lady Elizabeth's Grotto [Hagley]", Follies Magazine, #64, pp.&nbsp;14–16.
  • Michael Cousins, "Hagley Park, Worcestershire", Garden History, vol. 35, Suppl. 1 (2007), pp.&nbsp;1–152.