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But for sheer beauty even Compton must yield to Berry Pomeroy Castle. Here a riotous mass of ivy covers the remains of a mediaeval castle which was built by Henry de Pomeroy and a Tudor mansion on which the Lord Protector Somerset spent what was then a fortune, without, however, completing his task. John Prince, the author of the Worthies of Devon, and vicar of Berry Pomeroy church, gives an elaborate account of the mansion in his time (circa 1700. "The apartments within were very splendid, especially the dining-room, which was adorned, besides paint, with statues and figures cut in the alabaster with elaborate art and labour: but the chimney-piece, of polished marble curiously engraven, was of great cost and value. The number of apartments of the whole may be collected hence, if report be true, that it was a good day's work for a servant but to open and shut the casements belonging to them. Notwithstanding which, it is now demolished, and all this glory lyeth in the dust; there being nothing but a few broken walls, which seem to mourn their own approaching funerals.
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Seymour's Buildings
The Gatehouse
Berry Pomeroy Castle
Ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle
Berry Pomeroy Castle Entrance
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