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Belton House

This the the steps to the rear entrance to Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire.  The mansion is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a greater wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the time of the Tudors. The house has also been described as the most complete example of a typical English country house; the claim has even been...

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July, 26 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves