Introduction to castles, Детальна інформація
Introduction to castles
|square-plan water-gate on the south-east. The gatehouse at the |
|south-west, a single tower pierced by an arched passage was improved.|
|Later on, King Edward, the Confessor granted the manor to the |
|powerful house of Godwin. |
|Henry VIII, the most famous of all the owners of Leeds Castles, |
|expended large sums in enlarging and beautifying the whole range of |
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|buildings. At the same time, he carefully retained the defenses of |
|the castle for he often had cause to fear invasion from either France|
|or the Spanish . The king entrusted the work of alteration to his |
|great friend Sir Henry Guidford. |
|Leeds has been constantly inhabited and rebuilt since then. Most of |
|the castle today is the result of the nineteenth-century |
|reconstruction and addition. In 1926 Leeds was bought by the Hon. |
|Mrs. Wilson-Filmer, known as Lady Baillie. Immediately she began the |
|restoration of the castle that took her over 30 years to leave it as |
|it stands today. |
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|south-west, a single tower pierced by an arched passage was improved.|
|Later on, King Edward, the Confessor granted the manor to the |
|powerful house of Godwin. |
|Henry VIII, the most famous of all the owners of Leeds Castles, |
|expended large sums in enlarging and beautifying the whole range of |
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|buildings. At the same time, he carefully retained the defenses of |
|the castle for he often had cause to fear invasion from either France|
|or the Spanish . The king entrusted the work of alteration to his |
|great friend Sir Henry Guidford. |
|Leeds has been constantly inhabited and rebuilt since then. Most of |
|the castle today is the result of the nineteenth-century |
|reconstruction and addition. In 1926 Leeds was bought by the Hon. |
|Mrs. Wilson-Filmer, known as Lady Baillie. Immediately she began the |
|restoration of the castle that took her over 30 years to leave it as |
|it stands today. |
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