The landed gentry of England adopted the English landscape garden as the supreme signifier of their pre-eminence, both morally and politically, by asserting their superior taste and judgement, and lodging them, their predominantly Palladian mansions, and their estates as if they were permanent and immutable within both the English landscape and the English social fabric. The English garden dispensed with the formal structures and angles so typical of French parterres, taking on a supposedly wilder, more natural feel positioning itself as part of, not separate to, the landscape beyond. The gentry peppered their new gardens with clever vistas to garden statues, temples and buildings whose iconography further attempted to entrench their Taste and moral superiority in the natural laws of old England, the virtues of classical Rome and Greece, and as with the Temple of British Worthies at Stowe (Fig. \ref{864921}), the lines of succession within England of upholding those traditions, in politics, art and society.