Castle Howard

/ ˈhaʊəd /

noun

a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum

The Castle Howard collection is exceptionally valuable in historical portraits.

Vanbrugh went to Blenheim with his lady, in a company from Castle Howard, another magnificent monument of his singular genius.

But we have lingered long enough at Castle Howard; the sky is lowering and gray sheets of rain are sweeping through the trees.

That, however, imposes by its mass, but Castle Howard neither imposes nor pleases.

To Castle Howard, infamous; I was near being swallowed up in a slough.

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