Pope's Villa, from Radnor Gardens
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Twickenham – Pope's Villa
1719 - Alexander Pope comes to live in Twickenham and leases some riverside land with several small cottages.
1720 - Pope builds a villa, in the Palladian style.
1725 - Pope constructs a tunnel under the road, Cross Deep, connecting riverside Pope's Villa with 5 acres of land, and he decorates the cellars of his villa and the tunnel to create a grotto.
1733 - Pope adds a portico to Pope's Villa to the design of William Kent.
1744 - Alexander Pope dies and Pope's Villa and grounds are bought by Sir William Stanhope.
1758 - Stanhope remodels and extends Pope's Villa.
1807 - Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa.
1808 - Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J.M.W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'.
1842 - Thomas Young, a tea merchant, builds a new house on the site of the original Pope's Villa.
1919 - Thomas Young's replacement of Pope's Villa is bought by the Sisters of Mercy and becomes St Catherine's School.
1986 - Pope's Villa becomes St James Independent School for Boys.
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External links
Pope's Grotto Twickenham Museum
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