Shirburn Castle., Oxfordshire, England. Medieval castle with moat built in the 14th century remodelled in the Georgian style by Thomas Parker, Baron Macclesfield, in the 18th century, and again in the 19th century with Regency drawbridge and Gothic gatehouse. 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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