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Little-known treasure revealed at study day

Posted on 27/08/2009
University of Leicester

The next in the highly popular series of study days at Lamport Hall, run by the University of Leicester Centre for the Study of the Country House, takes place on Tuesday 22nd September with a study of Clarendon in Wiltshire, a Palladian mansion hardly known, even to the experts.

In a day of talks and discussion entitled, 'Royal Palace and Tory Mansion: country life and landscape at Clarendon, Wiltshire' the distinguished scholar and expert on Clarendon, Professor Tom Beaumont James, will be looking at the continuity of the landscape and the succession of houses - Clarendon Palace and its successors.

The three topics to be covered include: