follies and grottos

Group Rules:

1. If you post without giving a history of the subject ie name, location and who built it and when, your image will be removed.
2. They are buildings, or parts of buildings. Thus they are distinguished from other garden ornaments such as sculpture.
3. Their sole raison d’être is ornamental. Often they have some of the appearance of a building constructed for a particular purpose, but this appearance is a sham.
4. They are purpose-built. Follies are deliberately built as ornaments.
5. They are often eccentric in design or construction. This is not strictly necessary; however, it is common for these structures to call attention to themselves through unusual details or form.
6. There is often an element of fakery in their construction. The canonical example of this is the sham ruin: a folly which pretends to be the remains of an old building but which was in fact constructed in that state.
7. artwork using HDR photography will not be accepted.