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<\/a>Beautiful landscape<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Think its a goose<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lake and more birds. Black swans from Australia were introduced by the last independent owner. \u00a0One was nesting in another part of the lake.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>One of the first views of the castle<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Main part of castle and the part we visited<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>A number of buildings comprised the castle complex and this was one. It was not open to the public but when leaving we saw a couple arrive with luggage and enter so perhaps it is available for accommodation.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Rather benign looking lion on an iron studded door<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Enormous room with an ornate ceiling and numerous portraits of previous inhabitants<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The chapel, a late 20th century addition although one had always been present previously until closed by Henry V111 in 1544. The wooden wall panels and the tapestry date from C1500.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Stained glass made about 1220 and originally from Canterbury Cathedral<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lovely little courtyard reminiscent of ones seen on southern Spain. The Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, initially the wife and Queen of Henry V11 and then his brother Henry V111 lived in the castle.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This is part of a room styled to represent a royal apartment from 1422. I liked the shutters and window seats and could imagine a woman\u00a0sitting and gazing out onto a world she was not free to visit independently.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The bay window was installed during renovations in 1512 and the room is the largest in the castle<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Not sure what this is apart from it looking to have Tudor architecture and found in one of the courtyards. Seems to have small openings just under the roof line similar to those in a dovecot.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Old door<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Heating vent, a modern introduction by the last owner along with vast amounts of money\u00a0spent on renovation and decoration<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lady Baillie’s bedroom as designed in 1936 and conceived in the style of early 18th century France<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This room is known as the Thorpe Hall Drawing Room due to the fireplace and paneling having come from there in 1927<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Dining room decorated for Lady Baillie in the late 1930s<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The little train ferrying visitors from the car park to the castle and seen from a castle window<\/p><\/div>\n