. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . equal to ,£2500 of our money,rebuilt the house and enclosed it in a park, bequeathing it at hisdeath (i486) to the See of Canterbury. There can be little doubtthat it was Archbishop Bourchier who built the greater part ofthe present house, although there are portions the architectureof which seems to indicate an earlier origin. Bourchiers Chapel, the beautiful oriel window of which is one of the chief features 33 34 Iknole anfc its flDemortes of the Green Court, contains his device, the Bourchier-knot,carved on one of the stone corbels,
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . equal to ,£2500 of our money,rebuilt the house and enclosed it in a park, bequeathing it at hisdeath (i486) to the See of Canterbury. There can be little doubtthat it was Archbishop Bourchier who built the greater part ofthe present house, although there are portions the architectureof which seems to indicate an earlier origin. Bourchiers Chapel, the beautiful oriel window of which is one of the chief features 33 34 Iknole anfc its flDemortes of the Green Court, contains his device, the Bourchier-knot,carved on one of the stone corbels, while his arms are found inanother room of the house. His immediate successor, JohnMoreton, lived much at Knole from i486 to isoo, and was visited there by HenryVII. Knole con-tinued to be theprivate residenceof the Archbish-ops until the timeof Thomas Cran-mer — who livedthere seven years,and whose armsare found on fiveshields, in a roomstill called Cran-mers R o o that thevast possessionsof the Church ex-cited envy, Cran-mer resolved to. 7\ ykjhA^n THE PORTERS LODGE give it up to Henry VIII., who is said to have determined to makeit a royal residence, but never carried out that intention. Queen Mary granted the manor-house and lands of Knoleto Cardinal Pole, at whose death, in 1558, they passed again intothe hands of the Crown. Then Elizabeth made Knole over toher favourite, Dudley, who left behind a trace of ownership inthe Leicester Gallery before surrendering it back to her; afterwhich the Queen granted it to her cousin, Thomas Sackville,whose grandmother was a Boleyn ; she also created him Baron |h|
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