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The Castle Howard is a famous Yorkshire venue that makes the excellent location for filming and also hosts some amazing events. All that you need to know about visiting the stately home is here; The building work actually began in 1699, and the building of Castle Howard took over 100 years to be fully completed, ranging the lifetimes of three Earls. The 3rd Earl of Carlisle engages the assistance of his friend, called dramatist John Vanbrugh. Vanbrugh, who has never done anything like building before, brought in Nicholas Hawksmoor to help him in the practical aspect of design and construction that span between 1699 and 1702 the design unfold. Constructed from east to west, the building took formation in just under ten years. Sadly, pending the time of Vanbrugh’s death in 1726, the house was half-finished; there was an absence of west wing as attention had turned to landscape the lawn. It was still not completed when the 3rd Earl of Carlisle died in 1738. However, few men would have believed that the house came to be finished by Carlisle’s son-in-law Sir Thomas Robinson, Vanbrugh’s vivacious baroque design would be revived again down to earth by the 4th Earl’s traditionalist Palladian wing. Finally, the building of Castle Howard was completed in 1801-11 with the beautiful decoration of the Long Gallery by Tatham. A further change was to be made when the loft structure at either end of the West Wing was dismissed during the renovation of the Chapel between 1870 and 1875, as a plan to bring both wings together into greater agreement. However, presently the ultimate advent of the House only bears a fragmentary look to the idealized view in Vitruvius Britannicus (see illustration): rather have two identical wings the House brag two wings that do not match at all.