3-047-000 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Courtyard of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, 1872. 'The village and castle of Chillingham, the seat of the Earl of Tankerville, visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales this week, are situated in the northern part of Northumberland, five miles east of Wooler, near the banks of the river Till, which runs by the battle-field of Flodden and enters the Tweed at no very great distance...The castle is a strong square pile of Elizabethan architecture, placed on an eminence amidst the trees. It has four stories in the wings, but three in the centre of the building. From the middle court an ascent of steps leads up to a landing with a balustrade, adorned in front with some figures of armed British warriors. The apartments inside the castle have several good historical portraits to show, those of Lord Bacon, Lord Burleigh, Kings Charles and James, and Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. There is also the trace of a great natural curiosity - a chimney-piece made of a block of marble, in which a living toad was found inclosed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.