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Mentmore Towers

Mentmore Towers is a grand 19th-century country house in the village of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, England.  • Origins & purpose: It was built between 1852 and 1854 for banker and art collector Baron Mayer de Rothschild, both as a luxurious rural residence and a showpiece for his extensive collection of fine and decorative art.  • Architecture & style: Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton (famous for the Crystal Palace) and his son-in-law George Henry Stokes, the mansion is built in the so-called “Jacobethan” style — a 19th-century revival combining Elizabethan and Jacobean motifs.  • Interior & grandeur: The house was once richly furnished with Renaissance-inspired interiors (Italian-Renaissance, French-style drawing rooms, classical furnishings), grand reception rooms, a large glazed-roof central hall, and formal gardens and parkland surrounding it.  • Historic significance: Regarded as one of the greatest country houses of the Victorian era, Mentmore Towers was the first in what became a series of estates owned by the Rothschild family in the Vale of Aylesbury.  • Later fate: After changes of ownership, sale of its contents in the 1970s, and attempts to repurpose it (including as a centre for meditation by the Maharishi Foundation, and plans for a luxury hotel that never fully materialised), the building now stands as a heritage asset — though in need of restoration and at risk of deterioration.