Sculpture

NOTES: The house was built by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, between 1456 and 1486. It passed into Royal possession in 1537 during the Dissolution. In 1566, Elizabeth I presented the house and estate to her cousin Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, who substantially remodelled the medieval palace between 1603 and 1608. Richard Dungan, the King's Plasterer, was responsible for the patterned ceiling and Paul Isaacson, the Master Painter, for the strap-work and trompe-l'oeil adorning this Jacobean addition.

NOTES: Trading ceased at this the third Royal Exchange in 1939.

NOTES: The figure is here ungilded and has since been regilded as originally.

NOTES: Amongst other work for the 5th Duke of Bedford Henry Holland built a conservatory in 1788-1789. This was altered by Wyatville and converted into a sculpture gallery in 1818.

NOTES; This is one of a pair of cast-iron lions brought to the town from the grounds of Waddesdon in 1888.

NOTES: This hunting lodge built on a grand scale was designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra for Vittorio Amedeo II. Work started on the building in 1729 and was completed within two years. The interior decoration of the ballroom was the work of the Venetian painter and stage designer Giambattista Crosato.

NOTES: This palace was built by Pope Gregory XIII in 1574 as a summer residence. It served as a papal residence and housed the central offices responsible for the civil government of the Papal States until 1870. It has been the official residence and workplace of the Presidents of the Italian Republic since 1946.