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Pugin bought the land for the site at West Cliff, Ramsgate, in 1841. [1] The house was built between 1843 and 1844 by the builder George Myers. Pugin's second wife died in 1844 and it was only after his third marriage to Jane Knill in 1848 that it became a family home. The interior of the house was finally completed in 1850.
The castle is rectangular in layout with round towers at the corners. A feature of Ruperra is the rectangular three-light windows with drip moulds, with the centre light higher than the side lights. [66] These windows appear on other Welsh Renaissance houses. The Castle is rectangular with round corner towers and a Porch with a classical doorway.
Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of East Thanet, which is represented by Labour MP Polly Billington. She won the seat in the 2024 general election, representing a Labour win after Craig Mackinlay held the seat for the Conservatives in the 2015 General Election. Before 2015 the MP for Ramsgate was Conservative Laura Sandys.
At the end of Pugin's life, in February 1852, Barry visited him in Ramsgate and Pugin supplied a detailed design for the iconic Palace clock tower, in 2012 dubbed the Elizabeth Tower but popularly known as Big Ben. The design is very close to earlier designs by Pugin, including an unbuilt scheme for Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire. The tower was ...
Polly Billington (born 1967) is a British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024. Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and had worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC before becoming a special advisor to Ed Miliband .
Caernarfon Castle Dolbadarn Castle A reconstruction of Holt Castle in 1495. Wales is sometimes called the "castle capital of the world" because of the large number of castles in a relatively small area. [1] [2] Wales had about 600 castles, [3] of which over 100 are still standing, either as ruins or as restored buildings. The rest have returned ...
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...
Drawing showing Wyatville's Gothic transformation to the buildings of the upper ward of Windsor Castle Drawing showing the intended changes to the Prince of Wales Tower at Windsor Castle. Sir Jeffry Wyatville RA (3 August 1766 – 18 February 1840) [1] was an English architect and garden designer.