3-077-652 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

English Homes - No. XXIII: Belvoir Castle, 1890. Faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, seat of the Duke of Rutland. ''General View from the Road. View from the Private Gardens. As the road comes out from the wood the castle faces you, magnificent with tower, turret, and chapel, splendid in its sombre colour of yellow-brown, deepening into red, against the strong green of the grassy slope in front. It is, before all things, a castle. No flowers are seen near its foot, but only the green glacis sloping up to the bastion, from whose low wall eight brazen cannon point. Behind these the great round tower rises, of yellow marl stone, darker above: over its four lofty storeys of windows is a high battlement, and over this again the flagstaff, with flying flag when the owner is at home. At the left-hand corner of this, the grand front, is a massive square tower. Nearer the centre is the great chapel-window, with its turrets rising on each hand; and, farther to the right, another square tower flanks the building'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.