' Nobody had informed me that at one view I should see a palace. a town. a iortified city. temples on high places, woods worthy of being each a metropolis of the Druids, the noblest lawn in the world fenced by half the horizon and a mausoleum that would tempt one to he buried alive.'
(HORACE WALPOLE)
Michael Oliver visits Castle Howard , the great house in Yorkshire, and the first building designed by the playwright Sir John Van brugh in 1699-his genius now ' hugely turned to architecture
With George Howard. Christian Howard. Sir Hugh Casson , Sir John Summerson. Geofrey Beard. John Cornforth. Mark Girouard. Patrick Nuttgens and Laurence Whistler.
Producer JOHN POWELL
A Kaleidoscope production (Revised repeat)