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Sir Walter Raleigh in Dorset Part 3: Architectural Ambition – A New Castle for Sherborne

Sir Walter Raleigh in Dorset Part 3: Architectural Ambition – A New Castle for Sherborne

Jul 2, 2020

Architectural Ambition: Sherborne Lodge Raleigh’s architectural ambitions for the old medieval Sherborne Castle hit their limits, whether financial and/or practical, and he began to think again. He turned his attention to an early 16th-C hunting lodge[1] across from...

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