Isaac de Caus, Nicholas Stone, and the Woburn Abbey grotto.

The history of the grotto at Woburn Abbey has hitherto not been clearly established. That it dates from the early seventeenth century is universally accepted, for it is within the ground floor of the still extant north range that was almost certainly built in the late 1620s or early 1630s. 'Garden-making' accompanied the building boom in country houses in the first few decades of the seventeenth century, and a fair number of patrons commissioned designers to create renaissance-style ...