Harewood House and the destruction of the Gawthorpe Hall

Resumé

In England, where manorial rights had been commuted to cash from the fifteenth century, the spatial arrangements in the landscape reflected new relationships between owners, land and power. In this article Dr. Jonathan Finch descibes the the demolition of Gawthorpe Hall and the construction of Harewood House and the associated re-landscaping of the estate as the epitome of the new relationships of a modern, capitalist society.