"Ruins of Lord Bacon's House, Gorhambury Park"

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2005.5815

Etching of the ruins of the old Gorhambury House, the former home of the Bacon family, including Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of Sir Francis Bacon. Not signed, no date. The Elizabethan house at Gorhambury was built in 1563 - 68 by Sir Nicholas Bacon. It was replaced by the present neo-Palladian house, built by the 3rd Viscount Grimston in 1777 - 84 to the designs of Sir Robert Taylor.

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Amy Cooke

4) Verulamium Archive Room

Gorhambury Ruins, Gorhambury, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

PWD box 24 (black).

13/09/2006