3554 x 2544 px | 30,1 x 21,5 cm | 11,8 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2011
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This is an illustration from ‘Picturesque views of Scots of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’ Exton Hall is an English country house on the western edge of the village of Exton, Rutland, England. It was the family seat of the family of Sir James Harington and later the Noel family, Earls of Gainsborough for almost four hundred years. The mansion burnt down in 1810 and is now a ruin which has grand gables and beautiful chimneys like many Elizabethan houses. The present Exton Hall was built in the 19th century close to the ruins of the original mansion. In 1869 a Roman Catholic chapel, dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury was added, to a design by Charles Alban Buckler. It is still in regular use. In 1948 the Earl of Gainsborough gave the United Steel Companies a lease to quarry ironstone in the Park. Sundew, the world's largest walking dragline worked the land from 1957 until 1974 when mining ceased. Sundew then slowly walked to Corby. Material was moved by a narrow-gauge railway with a loop of nine miles and a link to the exchange sidings at what is now Rutland Railway Museum's site. The hall is one of the many stately homes in Britain associated with the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough.
