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Fonthill, also known as Fonthill Castle, was the home of the American archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Apr 9, 2021 · The estate is owned by the current Baron Margadale, Alastair Morrison. In my first encounter with this place, I was deeply impressed with how well the land appears to be managed. The rights of way across it are maintained to a high standard, with signs and gates in excellent condition.
The first appearance of a house at Fonthill comes in 1533, when Sir John Mervyn purchased the estate and lived in a house surrounded by a park. A hundred years later Fonthill House was owned by Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Charles I’s reign.
Apr 5, 1994 · They gawped at the unrivalled scale of the house and its magnificent collection of paintings, books and furniture. Cunningly, Beckford cancelled the sale, having whetted the nation's appetite.
May 27, 2012 · The Bucks County Historical Society, which owns Fonthill, is proud to have continued Mercer’s legacy. Reidell said he hopes this castle’s story never ends. “We’ve reached 100 years. Our goal is to prepare it for the next 100 years,” he said.
This short chapter focuses on five paintings, perhaps the only surviving paintings, of the first Fonthill House, owned by the Mervyns, the Cottingtons and, briefly, by Alderman Beckford; also one painting of the Alderman’s second Fonthill House, ‘Splendens’, commissioned by his son William Beckford.¹.
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Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin.
