| | Department for Culture Media and Sport - Estelle Morris defers export of an oak coffer from Lansdown tower, Bath |
 | | Lansdown Tower, built on a strip of land leading up to his house in Bath, was his last architectural scheme and his inventive ideas were the driving force in the design of both the interior and exterior. |
| | However, its design is arrestingly architectonic and its exploitation of contrasting varieties of oak for decorative effect is extremely sophisticated, reflecting the enthusiasm for the use of native timbers that was at its height in the first third of the nineteenth century. |
| | The design of all the interiors and the furnishings at Lansdown Tower was a project of Beckford's old age, but one that proved the culmination of his creative genius. |
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