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2019
Book
Knole Revealed
Over the past decade, Knole has undertaken the biggest conservation project in the National Trust, supported by a generous grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. In order to conserve the internationally significant collections housed at the property, major work has been carried out on the fabric and environment of...Cohen, Nathalie ; Parton, Frances
conservation, landscape, London & South East, archaeology, country house, Curation & Experience, collections, palace, Knole, history, and building
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2011
Doctoral thesis
A house 're-edified' : Thomas Sackville and the transformation of Knole 1605-1608
Thomas Sackville was a courtier and a politician during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Shortly prior to his death in April 1608, Sackville began work on his largest architectural project, the transformation of the archbishops’ greathouse at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent. The house holds...Town, Edward
PhD, Curation & Experience, postdoctoral research, LSE, thesis, Knole, and London and South East
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2022
Journal article
Thomas Sackville's Hall of Fame: displaced, reinvented and preserved at Knole
Between 1605 and 1608 Knole was transformed into a dazzling Renaissance palace by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. All around its largest Gallery ran a frieze of nearly fifty oval portraits, of which thirty-eight survive on their original rectangular framed oak panels. In 1702 the paintings were prised from...Stoddart, Olivia ; Alabone, Gerry
portraits, Brown Gallery, Thomas Sackville, Knole, Francis Parsons, and Cartoon Gallery