Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, England. Medieval hunting lodge developed into a large house by James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, in 1702. Extended and given Gothic castellations in 1820 by John Foster and William Burn for Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. 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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