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Stamford’s Burghley House: The Inside Story

This month we’re taking a tour behind the grand façade of Burghley into one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan era built between 1555 and 1587. Burghley House was built to impress with its dramatic skyline and towering obelisk clock tower and the awe-inspiring state rooms… A Heavenly House…   Described as Antonio Verrio’s greatest masterpiece, this room is decorated with scenes from ancient mythology. A guidebook written in the 19th Century, describing this room refers to ‘Gods and Goddesses disporting themselves, as Gods and Goddesses are wont to do…!’ The sheer scale of the work is overwhelming and the perspective is so deceiving that one can almost believe in the sculptural details. The figure of Verrio...