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Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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h court (Fig. 95) with its varied levels, andthe shale thus removed was used to build, in 1909-10, a greatrampart skirting the north-west side of the wood in wThichthe castle is set. It is entertaining for the antiquary ofto-day to guess what solemn theories his successor of a.d.2921 will build on this imposing structure. A feature ofthe island growth is the profuse wTay in which fuchsiasthrive. Here, as in Connemara, the soft sea air swiftly turnsa low bush into a great hedge, brilliant with showrers ofcrimson blossom. The enclosing walls of both the east and west courtsmark by their splay the unusual plan of the castle itself,and the western forecourt has an added interest from thestone runnels that intersect its paving. Not often can itbe said of an old building that additions covering an evengreater area have failed to take away the charm of the old,and still more rarely that they have increased it; but noless is true of Lambay Castle. It is worthy of the island, Lambay Castle 135
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