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...Some are almost too authentic — cranky plumbing, rising damp and medieval draughts. In Argyll last month, I followed that idyllic road round Loch Fyne to Kilmartin Castle with some trepidation....
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...Greek and Roman coins, petrified wood carvings, stone amulets and little medieval bronzes have always been a feature of Elizabeth Gage’s work....
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...At the other end, St Ann’s Hotel — named after the saint to whom pious medieval visitors dedicated the spring — lingered on until 1989....
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...Its Roman and Medieval street plan is infinitely rich and complex, an archaeology and history lasting two millennia....
...Sculpted cherubs chat on the telephone, carvings of The Three Musketeers adorn the grand mahogany staircase, faux medieval stained glass windows glint on polychrome marble floors recalling Venetian palazzi...
...Medieval Damascus was a haven for refugees from the Spanish Reconquista, and a centre, with Aleppo, of ceramics, metal inlay and glass enamelling — which in turn inspired Venice....
...It is a hybrid of fairground hyperbole, vanity, dubious dictator chic, and clever engineering — a glass bubble held up by a seemingly inadequate support....
...Or you might look at the City of London’s proposals to move the meat market at Smithfield away from the site that it has occupied continuously for more than a millennium....
...The £33.6bn responsible investment specialist has moved to the glass-fronted curved building of 150 Cheapside — overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral....
...over half a millennium after the modern church was begun....
...These include Cor-Ten (panels of marine-grade steel with a rusty surface like russet suede), bronze, stones of various sorts and glass....
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...Incorporation was like stepping through the looking-glass. I became the director of L Hunter-Tilney & Co Ltd, a name I picked in the spirit of maximum dullness....
...And City Developments, or CDL, owns two-thirds of the London-listed Millennium hotel group....
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