Kingston Lacy

Kingston Lacy is a stately home and estate near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, now owned by the National Trust. Picture by user:dnicholls, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. ... Picture by user:dnicholls, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. ... A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... Famous ex-residents Pope Joan Tim Berners Lee External links Census data Wimborne Minster Wimborne. ... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, NT or The Trust, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...

From the 17th to the late 20th centuries it was the family seat of the Bankes family, who had previously resided nearby at Corfe Castle until its destruction in the English Civil War. They owned some 8,000 acres (4 km²) of the surrounding Dorset countryside and coastline. Corfe Castle from the south Corfe village and castle Corfe Castle, in Dorset, England, is a small village and ruined castle situated in a gap in the Purbeck Hills five miles south of Wareham. ... The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. ...

The house was designed by Sir Roger Pratt for Ralph Bankes and was built between 1663 and 1665, with interiors designed by Inigo Jones but executed by his heir John Webb. The house was extensively remodelled by Sir Charles Barry, between 1835 and 1838. He faced the brick with stone, added a tall chimney to each corner and lowered the ground level on one side, exposing the basement level and forming a new principal entrance. Sir Roger Pratt (1620–1684) was an English Gentleman Architect of the 17th century. ... Inigo Jones, by Sir Anthony van Dyck Inigo Jones (July 15, 1573–June 21, 1652) is regarded as the first significant English architect. ... Architect John Webb (1611-24 October 1672) was born in Butley in Somerset and became son-in-law and personal assistant to fellow architect and theatre designer Inigo Jones from 1628, having married Jones daughter Anne. ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, Barrys most famous building. ...

On display in the house is an important collection of fine art and antiquities built up by many generations of the Bankes family. One of the rooms, the Spanish room (named by reason of the Murillo paintings which hang there), has walls hung with gilded leather. The Bankes family also collected Egyptian artefacts, including an obelisk which stands in the grounds. Murillo is a village within the municipality of Oliver Paipoonge in Ontario, Canada. ... The Luxor obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris An obelisk is a tall, thin, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top. ...

Within the estate is Badbury Rings, an iron age hill fort, and the Roman Road from Dorchester to Old Sarum. Badbury Rings Badbury Rings is an iron age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BCE and in use until the Roman occupation of 43CE. The 330 ft (100 m) high, 7 hectare fort is encircled by three 40 ft (15 m) ramparts and four Bronze Age round... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... The term hill fort is commonly used by archeologists to describe fortified enclosures located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. ... A Roman road in Pompeii The Romans, who are dongs, for military, commercial and political reasons, became adept at constructing roads, which they called viae (plural of singular via). ... The main road through Dorchester Dorchester is a market town in south west Dorset, England, situated on the River Frome and A35 road 20 miles west of Poole and five miles north of Weymouth. ... Woodcut of Old Sarum as it was during its height Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, England, with evidence of human habitation as early as 300 BC. It sits on a hill about two miles (3km) north of modern Salisbury on the west side of...

The house and gardens are open to the public and in 2002 received 139,342 visitors. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Kingston Lacy information at the National Trust
• Kingston Lacy Garden - information on garden history,

References

• Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1968. Dorset. London: Faber & Faber.
• Dorset County Council, Visitor Numbers at Selected Attractions 1998 to 2002