Knole
Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0RP - England, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1732 462100 - Fax: +44 (0)1732 465528
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Visitors can wander around thirteen 17th Century styled state rooms marvelling at rare Stuart furniture and paintings by Gainsborough, Reynolds and Van Dyck. Built in the 15th Century for the Archbishops of Canterbury, Knole developed royal connections when Henry VIII persuaded Thomas Cranmer to gift it to him in 1538. Now home to the Sackville family, on display in the Great Hall is a facsimile of the bound manuscript Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Orlando contains numerous references to Knole and the novel is famously dedicated to Vita Sackville-West.
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