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The folly castle at Hagley Park, Worcestershire is a Grade II * listed building and the largest building in the park of Hagley Hall. It was designed by Sanderson Miller for George Lyllelton in the middle of the 18th century to look like a small ruined medieval castle. ==Eighteenth century== The building of the castle (and another folly called the rotunda), was started in 1747 while Sir Thomas Lyttelton was still alive (he died in 1751) so he was not opposed to the modernisation of his park with suitable fashionable ornamental follies, but the credit for its creation is usually given to his son and heir Gorge Lyttelton (the future 1st Lord Lyttelton). The Gothic castle is rectangular with a round tower at each corner. Only the tower in the north-west is complete to a height of four stores and an attached adjoining taller stair turret both with topped with battlements. The top floor of the completed tower has large pointed windows, it has a "domed ceiling with Gothic plaster decoration, cusped pointed niches alternating with the windows and above the door is a quatrefoil containing a coat of arms". The floors below have smaller rectangular and Lancet windows (some of them cusped). The other towers are one or two stories high with small rectangular windows and built to look as if they are ruined, (this effect was achieved by building the parts of the walls furthers from the castle's bailey higher than those closest allowing sloped roofs invisible to an observer outside the bailey). The curtain walls are also built to look as if they are ruins. The west wall is the most complete with three tall windows two of which are complete enough to contain Gothic arches. Below the middle window is a Gothic arched doorway which are three shield reliefs. The towers and curtain walls are faced with sandstone some of which may well have been taken from the ruins of Halesowen Abbey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castle in Hagley Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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