Castle Howard

The manor Castle Howard ( building design from 1699, major works completed in 1712, the West Wing in 1759 completed) is located about 40 km north of the city of York and is now often referred to as the first truly baroque building which was built in England. It is the same as the building, still most closely resembles the Baroque of the European mainland whose style. The architect of the building was then still completely inexperienced John Vanbrugh, the site management was largely carried out by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a former employee Christopher Wren.

Castle Howard was a building, the creation-date no other in England was like. The facades and roofs, which were decorated with columns, statues and flowing ornaments, made ​​this baroque building in England to be an instant success, which was followed by many similar buildings. Already in 1709 were most of the parts are sourced from Castle Howard; However, the final work is covered by Vanbrugh's entire life. There is also Vanbrugh's final work, the Temple of the Winds. The work on the west wing were completed after Vanbrugh's death.

Castle Howard is now in the consortium Treasure Houses of England.

Castle Howard as film location

Castle Howard has been the setting of the film Barry Lyndon game and the television and film productions of Brideshead Revisited and can be seen as fictitious Carlyle Castle in the movie Garfield 2.