A blaze of colour
Dec 08, 2021
2 minutes
IN 1827, John Talbot succeeded to his uncle’s estates as 16th Earl of Shrewsbury. The family seat at Alton, Staffordshire, was already a substantial building, having evolved from a hunting lodge into a Gothic ‘abbey’. The new Earl immediately doubled it in size, creating one of the largest private houses in Britain. Its Romantic interiors—crammed with art, antiquities
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