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Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

...that Lady Carlisle (pictured) so adamantly opposed alcohol consumption that when her daughter married a brewer, she refused to speak with her for years?
...that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
...that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton has been described as "Puginesquely elaborate"?
...that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor?

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