Burghley House
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Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the
The façade of Burghley House
Lord Burghley was the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign.
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards, c. 1585
The Three Brothers Browne, by Isaac Oliver, 1598. L to R: John, Anthony, William; grandsons of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague who was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot in 1571, Burghley House Collections.
Prodigy house
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Prodigy houses are large and showy English country houses built by courtiers and other wealthy families, either "noble palaces of an awesome scale" or "proud, ambitious heaps" according to taste. The
Burghley House
…Burghley House () is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior (Exeter) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance…
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