Layer Marney Tower
📍 Essex, England
About
Layer Marney Tower is an incomplete early Tudor country house, with gardens and parkland, dating from about 1523, in Layer Marney, Essex, England, between Colchester and Maldon. The building was designated Grade I listed in 1952.
Built in the 1520s by Lord Henry Marney, a close friend and advisor to both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Intended as the entrance to a grand palace that was never completed — Lord Marney died in 1523 and his son followed two years later. The eight-storey gatehouse, adorned with Italian Renaissance terracotta, remains the tallest Tudor gatehouse in Britain. Still a family home and open to the public.
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