Staunton Country Park

Staunton Country Park is a listed Regency landscaped parkland and forest encompassing approximately 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) in Hampshire, England.

He made significant changes and additions to the gardens with the construction of the lake and a number of follies.

[2] On his death in 1859 the estate and gardens were inherited by Staunton's cousin Henry Cormick Lynch.

[25] The temple was removed when William Henry Stone had his new home constructed on its site.

[1] By 1836 George Staunton was using the shell house as a museum of curiosities for such items as a stuffed crocodile and examples of Roman pottery.

[30] The column was removed at some point during Stone's ownership of the park with the inscription recording Staunton's election victories being moved to the shell house.

[21] The beacon is a folly built in 1830 in the style of an Tuscan order temple,[31] to a design by Lewis Vulliamy.

[33] The roof is domed, with a plain frieze and architrave and supported by eight Tuscan columns.

[34] Starting in 2017 as part of a £3.5m Heritage Lottery grant for Staunton Country Park, the beacon was restored.

[35] The moss house appears to have been built at some point in the first half of the 1830s and featured covered seat.

The inside was lined with moss and the floor was made up of Emsworth pebbles of differing colours.

[36] It was removed in the 1860s as part of the building work undertaken by William Henry Stone.

Construction started in August 1832 with the obelisk featuring a dedication to George Canning.