Georgian Garden Buildings by Sarah Rutherford with Jonathan Lovie

Shire Publications, 2012

This lavishly illustrated book is a super reference guide to Georgian landscape garden buildings. It is organized into chapters on various structural forms from arches to grottoes to temples and towers.

John Fuller’s Brightling follies and other buildings are not mentioned but it is easy to map out into which chapters they would appear.

Chapter	Fuller’s Building
Columns	The Pillars
Gates	The Gates to Brightling Churchyard
Mausolea and Monuments	Fuller’s Pyramid Mausoleum
Obelisks	Brightling Needle
Rotundas	The Rotunda Temple
Temples and Pavilions	The Coade Stone Summerhouse
Towers	The Tower

The suggestion that Fuller advertised for a hermit to live in the tower seems to have been made long after the fact, so I would not include the tower in the “Hermitages and Root Houses” chapter.

The Sugar Loaf, on the other hand, is not so easy to categorize. Legend has it that Fuller had this cone-shaped folly built to win a wager that he could see the spire of St. Giles, Dallington from his home, Rose Hill.