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Benutzer:Andy king50/Knowsley Hall
{{Infobox Historic building
|image=Knowsleyhall.jpg
|caption=The southern facade of Knowsley Hall circa 1880 showing the [[Gothic Revival|Gothicised]] south wing to the left and the [[loggia]] at the end of the east wing on the right.
|name=Knowsley Hall
|location_town=[[Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley|Knowsley]]
|location_country={{ENG}}
|architect=[[John Foster (architect)|John Foster]], [[William Burn]],<br>[[W. H. Romaine-Walker]], [[Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore|Claud Phillimore]]
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==Parkland==

This consists of an area of approximately {{AcreAndHectare |2500| round=0}} surrounded by a stone wall {{convert|9.5|mi|km|0}} long.  The park was landscaped in the 1770s by [[
Lancelot “Capability” Brown|"Capability" Brown]], who flooded a {{AcreAndHectare |62| round=0}} lake to feed the water-gardens around the hall.<ref name=anon2/>  The southeast section of the park was made into a [[safari park]] in 1971.  To the east and northeast of the hall is a chain of lakes, White Man's Dam, the Octagon Pond and the Home Pond.<ref>Pevsner and Pollard, pp. 221–222.</ref>  The Octagon was built as a summer house in 1755<ref name=pp222>Pevsner and Pollard, p. 222.</ref(contracted; show full){{refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.knowsley.com/gallery.asp Photographs]


[[Category:Houses in Merseyside]]
[[Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Merseyside]]