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2 unusual facts about Melbourne Hall


John Nost

He was prolific and received many commissions, including work at Melbourne Hall, Castle Howard, Buckingham House and Chatsworth.

Melbourne Hall

Coke travelled in the Netherlands and he turned to Nost, the famous statuary born in the Austrian Netherlands, with premises in Haymarket, London, who provided lead figures of amorini, vases, baskets of flowers and mythological figures, still identifiable at Melbourne, and most notably the lead "Vase of the Seasons" (1705), that is one of the finest examples of Baroque sculpture in lead in an English garden.


Marquess of Lothian

The heir presumptive to the marquessate is the 13th Marquess younger brother Lord Ralph Kerr, who owns Ferniehirst Castle, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, which is an ancient family seat that was restored by the 12th Marquess, and Melbourne Hall in Derbyshire.


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