Thesaurus Term/Concept: FOLLY

Identifier 69013
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A structure, often found in 18th century landscape gardens, that demonstrates eccentricity or excess rather than practical purpose. They can take many forms - ruins, sham castles, towers, hermits' cells or grottoes.

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Instances/Examples (26)

Context Record
Monument Type MKE26638 ARCH ACROSS RIVER (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE34961 ARX RUOHIM (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE26729 COTTINGTON COURT FARMHOUSE (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE99419 Court’s Wine Merchants parkland, Snargate Street, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE99420 Court’s Wine Merchants, Folly in parkland, Snargate Street, Dover (Monument)
Monument Type MKE25643 FLINT CAVE IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 5904 (Listed Building)
Monument Type MWX17580 Folly and cannon, Hoo Island, Hoo St. Werburgh (Monument)
Monument Type MKE30798 FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE89679 Folly in the Grounds of Boughton Mount (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE33981 GROTTO SHAPED FOLLY TO NORTH EAST OF SHIP ON SHORE PUBLIC HOUSE (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE34937 HACKEMDOWN TOWER (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE44152 Knole Park, Sevenoaks (Landscape)
Monument Type MKE29244 LINTON Folly, Linton Park, (located at TQ 755 501) (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE25642 LOVERS ARCH IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 593 750 (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE1099 Mays folly or Hadlow Castle (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE91304 Probable 19th century megalithic folly, Hurst Farm, Westerham (Monument)
Monument Type MKE125487 Ruin of lookout Castle Keep Hotel , Hackemdown Point (Monument)
Monument Type MKE125484 Ruin of Neptune's Tower, Whiteness Gap (Monument)
Monument Type MKE31947 RUINS OF BATH HOUSE AT LULLINGSTONE CASTLE (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE23120 RUINS OF CHAPEL AT PETT PLACE (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE30654 THE BIRD HOUSE (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE25639 THE CAVE OF THE SEVEN HEADS IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 5898 7508 (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE20260 The Eastern Mound, Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent (Monument)
Monument Type MKE25640 THE GRANGE (INCLUDING ATTACHED TUNNELS AND GARDEN ARCH) IN THE GROUNDS OF INGRESS ABBEY AT TQ 592 750 (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE31658 THE TOWER (Listed Building)
Monument Type MKE27496 WALL AT THE END OF THE LAKE IN THE GROUNDS OF KEARSNEY ABBEY (Listed Building)