Welcome to the Folly Fellowship website
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SPOT THE FOLLY!
The Folly Fellowship was founded in 1988 to protect, preserve, and promote follies, grottoes & garden buildings.
At that time, many follies were in a ruinous condition (although some were deliberately built like that) and the genre was largely an historic one that we felt worth preserving.
However, since then, there has been an increasing awareness of the importance of these buildings to our landscapes. Many have been restored, and several have been completely rebuilt with local support.
Better still, some individuals with imagination and the tenacity to fight the planning process, have begun to build new follies.
Follies are no longer the preserve of architectural historians and the rich. If you’d like to find out more, why not join us, and be part of an active group which celebrates a movement that happily breaks most of the rules of conventional architecture.
Apart from encouraging you to join the Folly Fellowship, this site is not about selling you anything — it is intended as a resource to enable you to find out more about this fascinating subject. So whether you are writing a thesis on garden architecture, looking for an architect to design you a folly, or even looking for ideas to build your own, dig in — there’s plenty of inspiration here!