A view of one of the statues that adorned the Pantheon at Stourhead.
The famous architect Henry Flitcroft was commissioned to design the Pantheon and in 1753 local mason William Privett started to build it using Chilmark limestone with a brick and timber-supported dome.
Modelled on the Pantheon in Rome, it was originally called the 'Temple of Hercules' as it was home to a statue of Hercules created by Rysbrack. It was renamed the 'Pantheon' when statues including Diana, Flora, Isis and St Susanna were added in the 1760s.
