Caen Wood Towers
Highgate, Middlesex - Reckitt family
"This beautiful edific, built on the site of the Fitzroy Farm and Dufferin Lodge,
was erected by its late proprietor, Mr Edward Brooke. The house is of a highly
ornamented character throughout, and the interior is especially richly decorated with marble.
Here, about the year 1630, Cromwell built for himself 'Cromwell House,' where,
however, it is thought that he paid but occasional visits. The chapel of Highgate,
which occupied the site of a hermit's cell, was granted by Bishop Grindal, afterwards Archbishop
of Canterbury, in 1565, to a new grammar school, erected and endowed the year before
by Sir Roger Cholmeley"
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Bonded onto a rigid card support, with a conservation grade wash-lined mount.
With a conservation grade wash-lined mount, framed in a dark walnut and gold frame.