Friday 5th July 2013
We enjoyed a day trip to Castle Howard, one of Yorkshire's finest stately homes, still in private ownership by the Howard family.
A fire in 1940 destroyed a significant part of the house, and its central feature, the dome, collapsed. The house is steadily being renovated and in 1960 the dome was re-built, and the 18th century painting The Fall of Phaeton by Antonio Pellegrini was re-created on the underside of the dome.
A centre-piece of the grounds is the Atlas fountain, created in 1850.
The house and grounds were used as a setting for television and film productions of Brideshead Revisited. While we were there, filming of Death comes to Pemberley, the sequel to Pride and Prejudice by crime novelist PD James was taking place - to be shown Christmas 2013.
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