2-703-859 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Eighteenth Century Version of a Pagoda in Kew Gardens', c1935. View of the Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens, Richmond, south-west London. The Chinese-inspired ten-storey octagonal pagoda is 163 ft (nearly 50 metres) high, and was completed in 1762 as a surprise for Princess Augusta, the Dowager Princess of Wales and mother of George III. It was designed by Sir William Chambers. From "Wonderful London, Volume 2", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]