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Castle Howard
Castle Howard is a stately home in Yorkshire, England, 25 miles north of York, one of the very grandest private residences in the country. It is not a true castle: the word is quite often used for country houses in England which were built after the end of the castle-building era (c. 1500) and were not intending to have any military function. It was built (1699-1712) for 3rd Earl of Carlisle . Sir John Vanbrugh was comissioned to design the building; since it was that gentleman-dilletante's first foray into architecture, he was assisted in this by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Castle Howard is familiar to television audiences as "Brideshead" in Granada Television's Brideshead Revisited. Today is part of the Treasure Houses of England heritage group.
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A more detailed architectural appraisal of Castle Howard is at John Vanbrugh
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