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    Mereworth Castle is a grade I listed Palladian country house in Mereworth, Kent, England. Originally the site of a fortified manor house with licence...
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    powered a watermill, the site of which now lies within the grounds of Mereworth Castle. In the early 18th century the Honourable John Fane – later 7th Earl...
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  • short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland. In 1926 he was created Baron Mereworth, of Mereworth Castle in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...
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    octagonal domes, and by William Kent, who designed the interiors. Mereworth Castle, Kent, 1722–25. Campbell's most overtly palladian design, based on...
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    village's 12th century place of worship to allow for the enlargement of Mereworth Castle. The Neo-Palladian style stone structure has been described as "the...
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    Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, Italy. Ickworth House in Suffolk, England. Mereworth Castle in Kent, England. The Rotunda in Birmingham, England, built as an office...
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    Classical building to relate directly to its landscape setting, as at Mereworth Castle in Kent or The Abbey in Cumbria. Basements, and consequently areas...
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  • death of his uncle, Peter Beatty, on 26 October 1949, Tree inherited Mereworth Castle, Kent, where they lived subsequently. In 1968 the Trees bought Shute...
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    of castles. Amongst these are Bolebroke Castle, Bovey Castle, Bruce Castle, Castle Ashby, Castle Howard, Clifton Castle, Highclere Castle, Mereworth Castle...
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  • Sheraton Park Tower Hotel at 101 Knightsbridge near Hyde Park and Mereworth Castle in Kent, which he purchased in 1976 for $1.2 million. In the 1980s...
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    Cheshire, is the most recent; Chiswick House, Greater London, and Mereworth Castle, Kent, are protected as listed buildings; Foots Cray Place, Kent, and...
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  • Geoffrey Henry Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne, 1st Baron Mereworth, KP, PC (Ire), JP, DL (born Browne-Guthrie; 6 January 1861 – 30 June 1927) was...
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  • Street. Mereworth Castle in Kent was used as the home of Sir James Bond, which is blown up early in the film. Much of filming for M's Scottish castle was...
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    Earl of Falmouth. In 1872 the land holdings of Viscount Falmouth, of Mereworth Castle, Maidstone, Kent, were listed in the top ten land holdings in Cornwall...
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    Chiswick House (1725), designed by its owner Lord Burlington, and Mereworth Castle (1723) by Colen Campbell. The Rotunda at the University of Virginia...
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    Burlington had rejected this design and it was subsequently used at Mereworth Castle, Kent. The brick-built Villa's facade is faced in Portland stone, with...
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  • families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle. List of family seats of Scottish nobility List of family seats of Irish...
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    family, Mereworth Castle, was sold and he went to live in his Irish residence, Castle MacGarrett, just outside Claremorris in County Mayo. Castle MacGarrett...
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    United States, where it inspired "Neo-Palladianist" buildings such as Mereworth Castle (1724) in Kent and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia (1772)...
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    Thomas Fane (died 1589) (category People from Mereworth)
    1538–1589) of Badsell Manor in the parish of Tudeley in Kent, and of Mereworth Castle, Kent, was Sheriff of Kent. He is not to be confused with his younger...
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    Fane from 1691 to 1733 and Lord Catherlough from 1733 to 1736, of Mereworth Castle in Kent, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House...
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    Peter Randolph Louis Beatty (1910–1949), who never married and owned Mereworth Castle. According to Robert K. Massie, Ethel Beatty was a poor mother, abandoning...
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  • two mills, value 10/-, at Marovrde (Mereworth). The site of the last mill now lies in the grounds of Mereworth Castle. In 1460, the mill was held by Thomas...
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    Stapleton (24 March 1822 – 20 November 1891) on 29 July 1845, he acquired Mereworth Castle, near Maidstone, Kent. His wife was the 17th Baroness le Despencer...
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    alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in Staindrop church close by Raby Castle. Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (c. 1404–1484), the son of John...
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    (1921–1999), ∞ 1949 : Anne Evelyn Beatrice Cavendish (1927–2010), owner of Mereworth Castle Arthur Jeremy Tree (1925–1993) Irene Langhorne (1873–1956), ∞ 1895 :...
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  • Palladio's Villa Capra in Vicenza. Only two 18th century examples remain: Mereworth Castle and Chiswick House. Both are today conserved as Grade 1 listed buildings...
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  • Kingsgate Castle Knole House Knowlton Court Lee Priory (demolished) Leeds Castle Linton Park Long Barn Lullingstone Castle Lympne Castle Mereworth Castle Mersham...
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  • of Bodmin. It later became a centre for biological research. Pentillie Castle described in Devonshire & Cornwall illustrated, from original drawings by...
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    Extinction date 1716 (first creation) Seat(s) Tregothnan Former seat(s) Mereworth Castle Motto Patience Passe Science ("Patience Surpasses Knowledge") In coelo...
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