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    Kent’s stairway to heaven

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    LUCINDA LAMBTON

    Pugin said, ‘Gothic is more holy the nearer it reaches Heaven.’

    After his myriad ecclesiastical designs, he would have been refreshed by the domestic rarity of the Gothicry of Hadlow Castle in Kent.

    What a building! What a heart-soaring, sky-kissing, slender beauty of a building; a fantastical flight of architectural fancy that, out of the blue, you suddenly come upon, rearing out of a little village in the flatlands of Kent.

    Built over a number of years from the 1780s by Walter Barton May, it must have been startling from the start. The fiery

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