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The red bull – a heraldic supporter of Thomas, 2nd Lord Dacre. The bull holds a banner of Lord Dacre: Gules, three
Escallops Argent. Dugdale claimed that this coat derived from an ancestor present at the siege of Acre in 1291 and the crusades to the Holy Land. One suggestion was that this was how the
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English heraldic woodwork which conceal a coded history of the Dacre family (including their elopements) and are regarded as fine examples of a lost world of English medieval and Tudor heraldic carving. The beasts became more famous in the 19th century through the
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Howards. After its initial build in the 13th century, it changed over the centuries, experiencing periods of building and development as well as periods of destruction. Presently it has
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Victorian Churches, with the body of the church being almost square. It is the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb, and contains one of the most exquisite sets of stained glass windows designed by Burne-Jones, and executed in the William Morris studio.
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Within a year of marrying the Duke of
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Naworth's greatest claims includes having the largest Great Hall in the north. Its windows look on to the courtyard and its fireplace, 15 ft wide, is arched like a stone bridge. It also has beautiful Flemish and French tapestries.
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interiors, original medieval chambers and large, forbidding dungeons (the latter being four dark apartments, three below, and one above up a long staircase. They still remain in their original state).
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his sisters as co-heiresses to his estates. The girls’ stepfather, the Duke of Norfolk, then married two of the three Dacre heiresses (Anne and Elizabeth) to two of his sons –
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