Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 32
g it by an edifice on a far granderscale. In 1816, however, when the work was almost completed,a deplorable fire consumed the north-east and north-west fronts,and was only stayed from further ravages by a doorway in thecentre of the long gallery being hastily bricked up. The de-struction of… … 8 Belvoir Castle 1780 as the central piece for the window in New College, and purchased by the Duke of Rutland for twelve hundred guineas. The following year the work was recommenced ; and that piety which led the builder to have inscribed on the central tower, NISI DOMINVS ^DIFI-CAVERIT DOMVM,…
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