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{{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=[[Knowsley, Merseyside]]
|location_country=England
|architect=[[John Foster (architect)|John Foster]], [[William Burn]],<br>[[W. H. Romaine-Walker]], [[Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore|Claud Phillimore]]
(contracted; show full)ef>Anon. pp. 3–4.</ref>  The room was designed by Foster to look like a [[great hall]] with doors {{convert|30|ft|m|0}} high and contains two [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] fireplaces and an [[ormolu]] [[chandelier]].  It was reworked in 1890, adding a [[bay window]], a carved [[Dado (architecture)|dado]] and a roof consisting of a large rectangular lantern supported on brackets which is glazed round its sides.<ref>Pevsner and Pollard, p. 221.</ref>  The hall now measures {{convert|53|
ft|m|0}} by {{convertby|37|ft|m|0}} and is {{convert|50|ft|m|0}} high.<ref name=anon7/>

==Parkland==

This consists of an area of approximately {{convert|2500|acre|km2}} surrounded by a stone wall {{convert|9+1/2|mi|km|0}} long.  The park was landscaped in the 1770s by [[Capability Brown|"Capability" Brown]], who flooded a {{convert|62|acre}} 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(contracted; show full)
==External links==
*[http://www.knowsley.com/gallery.asp Photographs]

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