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Castle Howard

May 2024

  • The sculptor Tony Cragg at his exhibition at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.

    Brief letters
    Goodbye to gallery audio guides at last

  • Tony Cragg standing between two huge silver twisted pillars outdoors

    ‘They look sad’: Tony Cragg scraps audio guides for Castle Howard exhibition

September 2023

  • John Vanbrugh's Temple of the Four winds

    Country diary
    Country diary: A gusty tour of some old friends

    Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: Among the grand old trees there is a veteran birch that deserves more attention than it gets

May 2020

  • Castle Howard, seen in the distance behind a froth of cow parsley.

    Country diary
    Country diary: a dream of grand gardens deserted

    Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: The locked-down grounds are still tended but so little trod that every step leaves a print

November 2019

  • The ‘energetically undulating’ road at the Stray, flanked by trees in autumn colour

    Country diary
    Country diary: fiery trees make a lavish display for stately home visitors

    Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: Walking among the beeches is like going through a series of ornate halls

August 2019

  • Fallen branches at the foot of a tree

    Country diary
    Country diary: spellbound in the forest, I see Herne's horned head

    Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: A trick of the light evokes the prehistoric shaman’s power

August 2016

  • Castle Howard in North Yorkshire

    Reynolds painting accepted in lieu of £4.7m inheritance tax

    An 18th-century portrait of 5th Earl of Carlisle hanging at Castle Howard for more than 200 years is allocated to Tate Britain

March 2015

  • Castle Howard attracts 250,000 paying visitors a year.

    Brideshead refreshed – Castle Howard trustees sell off artworks

    Nicholas and Simon Howard announce auction of art collected by earls of Carlisle to finance the upkeep of baroque pile that is a famed filming location

June 2012

  • Anthony Andrews (right), with Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited

    How we made
    How we made ... Anthony Andrews and Charles Sturridge on Brideshead Revisited

    'We'd be filming in one room of Castle Howard while the public passed by in another'

May 2012

  • Polo at Castle Howard

    The Northerner
    Prince Charles' favourite sport, polo, flourishes in the northern recession

    Londoners are fleeing the crowded south for the season, says the White Rose polo club, and bringing their mallets north

February 2012

  • A pork pie

    The Northerner
    Pie town gets a bite of its TV chef, whose dad did the cooking at Castle Howard

    James Martin returns - sort-of - to Malton and Norton, whose gift to Charles Dickens in 1841 prompted the great man to write: "There never was such a pie. We sit and stare at it and grow dizzy in contemplation of its enormous magnitude"

September 2011

  • Britain's best buildings
    Castle Howard: 'A stage set for us to strut on' – video

    Jonathan Glancey celebrates one of the most theatrical family homes in England – the baroque Castle Howard in Yorkshire

March 2004

  • 18th century Egyptian folly restored

    A hundred feet of carved sandstone which introduced the obelisk to Britain is nearing the end of restoration as the centrepiece of a park of follies surrounding the stately home of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.

October 2003

  • Victorian tradition returns to 'Brideshead' mansion

    Castle Howard mansion, famous as the backdrop to the Brideshead Revisited television series, yesterday revived an old, if usually unauthorised, tradition of taking dip in one of Britain's largest fountains.

December 2002

  • Labour of love recreates Castle Howard's gilded brazier

    The restoration of a £60,000 brazier at Castle Howard in Yorkshire was finished yesterday complete with gilded ironwork "flames" and an embellishment of swans' heads.

October 2001

  • Castle Howard to give up Reynolds

    Owner is to auction famous painting in order to meet financial crisis.

May 1999

  • Yorkshire pudding

    As mansions go, Castle Howard is magnificently mad. Much more interesting than your standard stately home, says Martin Wainwright

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