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A glimmer of hope for Mentmore Towers, the 'treasure-house that would evoke all the richness of 16th-century Venice' (opens the original)
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In May 1977, the contents of Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, were sold up over nine days for the staggering sum of £6.4 million. It was dubbed the sale of the century and came at the end of a sustained — but ultimately unsuccessful — campaign to save the house in its entirety as a branch of the V&A Museum. Mentmore Towers was built in 1851–54 for Baron Mayer de Rothschild by Sir Joseph Paxton of Crystal Palace fame. His design was inspired by the great Elizabethan house at Wollaton, Nottingham
Projecting power: How the Normans used architecture to conquer England (opens the original)
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The White Tower, London, begun by William the Conqueror in the 1070s and completed in about 1102. This prodigy building has given the whole castle its familiar name as the Tower of London. When it was begun, there was no English precedent for a masonry tower on this scale, so the design was probably copied from the lost tower of Dukes of Normandy in Rouen. Castles were a new building type introduced by the Normans. The chapter house of St Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol, now the cathedral. The August
Charles Berkeley on the arch at the castle that's been in his family since the 1100s (opens the original)
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Charles Berkeley stands next to the splendid French late-Gothic arch that dominates the courtyard of Berkeley Castle. Incredibly, this iconic castle — built shortly after the Norman Conquest, and the site of King Edward II's notoriously gruesome murder — has been in the ownership of the Berkeley family since the 12th century. Both the arch and the inset doorway, richly carved with figures of angels, saints and apostles, were among the imported fixtures and fittings installed during the wholesale
Duelling, revolution and a picture-perfect cottage in Ireland (opens the original)
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At about 2pm on August 25, 1769, two Irish MPs, James Agar and Henry Flood, rivals for the control of the parliamentary borough of Callan, Co Kilkenny, met to fight a duel at Dunmore Park just north of the city of Kilkenny. Having discharged his pistol first and missed, Agar called out to his opponent: ‘Fire, you scoundrel.’ Flood shot him dead, the bullet — according to newspaper reports — piercing his left breast. This encounter between two well-known figures became notorious and seems to have
'Works of craftsmanship that bring these rooms to life': Thirlestane Castle's spectacular 17th century plasterwork (opens the original)
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The late 17th century witnessed a fashion for deeply moulded plasterwork decoration incorporating festoons of naturalistic flowers and foliage, treatment echoed in the contemporary sculpture of Grinling Gibbons. Inspiration for all this work came from Dutch art of the period, including still lifes. Few places show this work off better than the spectacular decorative plaster ceilings at Thirlestane Castle. Thirlestane Castle was transformed in the 1670s by the Duke of Lauderdale, then the effecti
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