Combermere Abbey, Shropshire, England. Gothic-style mansion house, built on the site of a monastery, remodelled in 1814-21 by Stapleton Cotton, Viscount Combermere, owner of several plantations in the West Indies (Nevis and St. Kitts, 420 enslaved). Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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