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architecture, Cornwall, country house, eyecatcher, garden history, landscape, Mausoleum

Pentillie Mausoleum, Saltash, Cornwall

Posted on November 18, 2022by Editor
Pentillie Mausoleum, Saltash, Cornwall

In the early years of the 18th century Sir James Tillie updated his will and included a rather mysterious instruction about his last resting place. He was to be interred ‘in such a place at Pentillie Castle as I have acquainted my dearest Wife the Lady Elizabeth Tillie with.’

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architecture, belvedere, eyecatcher, Folly, garden, landscape, North Yorkshire, Tower

Grimston Park Tower, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

Posted on August 30, 2019by Editor
Grimston Park Tower, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

Grimston Park was rebuilt by the Hon. Colonel Caradoc, later 2nd Baron Howden, from around 1839, transforming a ‘plain country house’ into a ‘splendid chateau’. New offices and estate buildings were also erected, including this ‘object tower’. 

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