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Willington, Beds., album created on 06 Nov 2015
Stables and dovecote built for Sir John Gostwick (d. 1545), Master of the Horse to Cardinal Wolsey and later Treasurer of First Fruits and Tenths. He entertained Henry VIII at his manor here in 1541, but the house has vanished. He also built the N. chapel of the parish church and may have been responsible for rebuilding the whole church.
Audley End House, Essex, album created on 06 Nov 2015
Built on the site of Walden Abbey, outside Saffron Walden, which, after the dissolution of the monasteries, was acquired by Thomas Audley, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor. The present house was begun in 1603 for Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, who had come into favour on the accession of James I and who became Lord Treasurer in 1614. Suffolk's house was built round two courtyards; what survives, considerably altered and repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries, is less than half of the original. J…
Anglesey Abbey, Cambs., album created on 06 Nov 2015
House created c.1600 from the surviving buildings of an Augustinian priory, much extended and aggrandized in the 1920s and 1930s for the bachelor collector, Huttleston Broughton, 1st baron Fairhaven (1896-1966), who was also responsible for developing the grounds. Fairhaven's English-born father had, while working as an engineer in the USA, married the heiress of oil tycoon, Henry Huttleston Rogers. According to James Lees-Milne, Fairhaven was invariably served first at meals, before his guests,…
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