Houghton Conquest, Houghton House 1897
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This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building. It has classical features: in this view we see the Tuscan colonnaded loggia, which originally had two further storeys of loggias. This design was extremely advanced for England, and led to its being attributed to Inigo Jones, the King's architect, on no basis at all. Now the roofless romantic ruin stands where once stood the mansion of the 'fair, and wise and good'.
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