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Castle Howard
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(24km/15m NE of York)
Stately home in North Yorkshire, designed by *Vanbrugh and *Hawksmoor for the 3rd earl of Carlisle. The house was built in 1700–26 in an English version of *baroque, but the west wing (designed by the earl's son-in-law, Thomas Robinson) was added in 1753–9 in the subsequent *Palladian manner. The soaring entrance hall, as flamboyant as a church interior in Rome and with the dome painted by a Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, was destroyed in a fire in 1940 but has been precisely restored. In the grounds are the Temple of the Four Winds, a belvedere designed by Vanbrugh in the last two years of his life; and, beyond it, a circular mausoleum by Hawksmoor.
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