Herstmonceux Castle

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Herstmonceux Castle is a brick-built castle, dating from the 15th century, near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. It is one of the oldest significant brick buildings still standing in England. The castle was renowned for being one of the first buildings to use that material in England, built using bricks made from local clay by builders from Flanders. It dates from 1441. Construction began under the then-owner, Sir Roger Fiennes, and was continued after his death in 1449 by his son, Lord Dacre. The castle was sold in 1708 to George Naylor. His descendant, Robert Hare-Naylor, had the interior of the castle demolished in 1776–77 to turn it into a picturesque landscape feature in the grounds of Herstmonceux Place. In the early twentieth century, the castle was restored in two separate building campaigns for Colonel Claude Lowther and Sir Paul Latham. Herstmonceux was gifted to Queen's University at Kingston, a Canadian university, in 1993 by Alfred and Isabel Bader. The parks and gardens...

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