Detail of the Shell Grotto, Nienoord, Netherlands, in a rectangular wooden pavilion, c. 1700Part of the Shell Grotto in Margate
A shell grotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shell grotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th and 18th centuries. It suited the Baroque and Rococo styles (which used swirling motifs similar to sea shells)[1] and often represented the mimicry of architectural features from the Italian Renaissance (themselves copies from Classical times). The idea of a grotto was originally a means to enhance a dank undercroft, or provide an antechamber before a piano nobile, but later it became a garden feature independent of the house, sometimes on the edge of a lake, with water flowing through it.
^Jackson, Hazelle (1 August 2001). Shell Houses and Grottoes. Princes Risborough: Shire Pubns. ISBN 0-7478-0522-9. (abstract).
A shellgrotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shellgrotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th...
Ponting Grotto of the Buttes-Chaumont in Paris Grotto pavilion in Kuskovo, Moscow (1775) Anapat Grotto, Lastiver, Armenia ShellGrotto, Wales The Grotto in...
example of the luxury and display demonstrated by the family is the ornate shellgrotto summerhouse within the park, completed and decorated during the 1830s...
five follies: Ornamental Canal Gothic Tower Rotunda Mock Bastion Shell-lined Grotto A sixth folly, the Octagon, consisted of a two-story summer house...
house, the Folly Tower and the ShellGrotto. The park is entered through the Pontymoile Gates. The gates, the grotto and the stables are all Grade II*...
centre is on a raised viewpoint, which also contains an exit through a shellgrotto. The castle also offers accommodations for tourists including rental...
main house are Grade I listed: Rockery and Grotto, Stables, Salmon Larder and Ice House, Shell House and Grotto. Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford died...
The east tower of the gatehouse contains a 17th-century shellgrotto, one of two remaining grottos from this period. (The other is at Woburn Abbey.) An ancient...
sailor's valentines; and larger constructions including mosaics and shellgrottos. Shellcraft is sometimes simply a folk art which is carried out by amateurs...
facilities and is the home of Pontypool RFC. The park includes a folly, shellgrotto and ornamental ponds. Much of the area is given to woodland but there...
were prominent in Britain from the end of the 16th century. The shell-decorated grotto is the only remaining relic of these features. It was used as a...
to Newhailes ShellGrotto. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newhailes Tea House. Official website Video footage of the ShellGrotto Video footage...
including ferns. They were created in a similar spirit to the fashionable shell grotto. This phase lasted from the late 17th century into the early 19th. During...
the largest grotto in the world. It is also "considered to be the world's most complete man-made collection of minerals, fossils, shells, and petrifications...
A shell room may refer to: Shellgrotto – an early modern decorative folly The Shell Room at Woburn Abbey in England Magazine (artillery)#Naval magazines...
Woburn Abbey (/ˈwoʊbərn/), occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford...
house include a well-preserved walled garden, a ruined temple, and a shellgrotto. "Newtown Anner". landedestates.nuigalway.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2018...
Ironworks Big Pit National Coal Museum Folly Tower Garndiffaith Viaduct ShellGrotto Rivers and canals Afon Lwyd Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal Pontymoile...
as a lawn shrine, Mary on the half shell, bathtub Mary, bathtub Virgin, and bathtub shrine) is an artificial grotto typically framing Our Lady of Lourdes...
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