Knole

British  

/ nəʊl /

noun

1. a mansion in Sevenoaks in Kent: built (1454) for Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury; later granted to the Sackville family, who made major alterations (1603–08)

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Example Sentences

Knole Park Oak in Kent, believed to have inspired an epic poem in Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, also made the list.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

It was that first Sackville, ancestor of the current residents of Knole, who modeled the house on palaces he had seen in Europe, transforming it into a residence fit for entertaining the royal court.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2021

There is even a very early self-reflexive photograph, “Silber Repousse Mirror from Knole House,” 1853, by the British photographer Charles Thurston Thompson.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

And in 1967 they shot a promotional video at Knole Park Golf Club, outside London, for their double release of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane."

From Golf Digest • Jul. 7, 2014

His pictures are to be found freely, as I have written, in old English mansions, such as Arundel and Alnwick Castles, Knowsley, Knole, Petworth, &c.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah