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Hill Hall, located near Epping, Essex, England is a recently restored Elizabethan mansion. Although owned by English Heritage, the building consists of many private apartments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hill Hall )〕 It is a grade I listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Name: HILL HALL AND ATTACHED SERVICE WINGS TO NORTH AND WEST List entry Number: 1123963 )〕 The house was originally built for Sir Thomas Smith during the reign of Elizabeth I to replace a 12th-century house on the same site. Construction was carried out over several intervals (1567-8, 1572-3) interspersed between Smith's stints as ambassador to France.〔Girouard, Mark (2009). ''Elizabethan Architecture: its rise and fall, 1540-1640'', p. 176. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 978-0-300-09386-5.〕 The hall stands in 50 hectares (120 acres) of parkland designed by Humphrey Repton. The Smith family remained in occupation until the mid 19th century. Hill Hall subsequently became a prisoner of war camp during World War 2 and later a women's prison until a fire in 1969. It has since become part of the Heritage Trust. Limited tours are available to see the internal period wall paintings described by Croft-Murray of the British Museum as the most important survival of Elizabethan decorative figure painting in England.〔 According to local legend, Hill Hall was once the site of a duel between seven brothers, for the hand of a beautiful girl. Every brother was killed. It is also allegedly the haunt of a phantom black dog. ==External links== *(Hill Hall ) - official site at English Heritage 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「Hill Hall (Essex)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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