Buildings 2017 C/d 28/2

[Foxy-Lady]

14 daniel defoe wrote it was "more like a town than a house"(8 5 )
Thank you for your help x

[Flonska]

14. Burleigh (Burghley) House (Stamford)

[Flonska]

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/Defoe/25

But the beauty of Stamford is the neighbourhood of the noble palace of the Earl of Excester, call'd Burleigh House, built by the famous Sir William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, and Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, the same whose monument I just now mentioned, being in St. Martin's Church at Stamford-Baron, just without the park.

This house, built all of free-stone, looks more like a town than a house, at which avenue soever you come to it; the towers and the pinnacles so high, and placed at such a distance from one another, look like so many distant parish-churches in a great town, and a large spire cover'd with lead, over the great clock in the center, looks like the cathedral, or chief church of the town.

[Foxy-Lady]

Thank you very much x

[Flonska]

Glad to have helped! ;-)