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Langley Hall, the Glossary

Langley Hall is a red-brick building in the Palladian style, formerly a country house but now a private school, located near Loddon, Norfolk, England.^[1]

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16 relations: Andien de Clermont, Capability Brown, Dissolution of the monasteries, Doric order, England, Frederick V of Denmark, Holkham Hall, John Soane, Langley Abbey, Langley School, Loddon, Listed building, Loddon, Norfolk, Matthew Brettingham, Palladian architecture, Proctor-Beauchamp baronets, Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 1st Baronet.

Andien de Clermont

Andien de Clermont (died 1783) was a French artist who worked in England in the 18th century (c.1716–1756).

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Frederick V of Denmark

Frederick V (Danish and Norwegian: Frederik V; 31 March 1723 – 14 January 1766) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 6 August 1746 until his death in 1766.

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Holkham Hall

Holkham Hall is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title)The Earldom of Leicester has been, to date, created seven times. Langley Hall and Holkham Hall are country houses in Norfolk and Grade I listed buildings in Norfolk.

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John Soane

Sir John Soane (né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style.

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Langley Abbey

Langley Abbey was an abbey of Premonstratensian Canons in Langley Green, now in the civil parish of Langley with Hardley, Norfolk, England. Langley Hall and Langley Abbey are Grade I listed buildings in Norfolk.

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Langley School, Loddon

Langley School is an HMC private co educational day, weekly, flexi and full boarding school situated near the market town of Loddon in South Norfolk, England.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Loddon, Norfolk

Loddon is a town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, about south-east of Norwich.

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Matthew Brettingham

Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from modest origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the best-known architects of his generation.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley_Hall

Also known as Langley Park, Norfolk.

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