Title: The North East View of King Alfred's Hall. Tradition says that a Treaty was sign'd here with Gormandus the Dane. It is certain that a Street and some remains of a Castle or Tower at Cirencester still bear his Name.
County: Gloucestershire
Location: Cirencester
Gardens: Cirencester Park
Medium: Copper
Artist: Robins, Thomas the Elder
Date: 1763
Dimensions: 234 x 318 mm
Colour: Fine gouache colour
The 'ruins' of King Alfred's Hall were built as a folly in 1732 by the 1st Earl of Bathurst and his friend Alexander Pope within the landscape gardens of Cirencester Park.
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101298719-alfreds-hall-at-ngr-so-972-031-cirencester#.Xwi6FShKiM8
