Corfe Castle
You can see Corfe Castle in the distance from Dunshay Manor where we are staying – a remarkable and slightly surreal sight in the distance – its tall towers dismantled in the Civil War and then looted for building stone:- Up close it’s oddly less impressive, but still on a massive scale:-
St. Cross
On the way down to Dorset, we stopped off at St. Cross, the wonderful, stately, beautifully preserved, pure Norman church just outside Winchester. Founded by Henry of Blois in 1136, and part of the Hospital of St. Cross, a set of medieval almshouses, it has been preserved in a way which is unusual in England…
Vanbrugh300 (11)
I love the podcast as attached in which Matthew Lloyd Roberts talks to Piers Gough about the character of Vanbrugh’s architecture, beginning with Vanbrugh Castle, talking in Woolwich which I did not include in my book and describing very eloquently so many aspects of Vanbrugh’s work: the way the ground plan at Castle Hiward is…
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