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    The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered...
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    A shell grotto is a type of folly, a grotto decorated with sea shells. The shell grotto was a popular feature of many British country houses in the 17th...
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    A grotto or grot is a natural or artificial cave or covered recess. Naturally occurring grottoes are often small caves near water that are usually flooded...
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    The Shell Grotto Nienoord (Dutch: Schelpengrot) is a shell grotto built around the year 1700 at the behest of Anna van Ewsum, in a cupola in the southern...
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    The Blue Grotto (Italian: Grotta Azzurra) is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, southern Italy. Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity...
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    The Shell Grotto - (Welsh: Groto Cregyn) - (sometimes called the Shell Hermitage) is a Grade II* listed (as of 7 February 1962) late-18th-century stone...
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    example of the luxury and display demonstrated by the family is the ornate shell grotto summerhouse within the park, completed and decorated during the 1830s...
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    house, the Folly Tower and the Shell Grotto. The park is entered through the Pontymoile Gates. The gates, the grotto and the stables are all Grade II*...
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    Scott's Grotto in Ware, Hertfordshire, is a Grade I listed building and with six chambers the most extensive shell grotto in the United Kingdom. "It is...
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  • five follies: Ornamental Canal Gothic Tower Rotunda Mock Bastion Shell-lined Grotto A sixth folly, the Octagon, consisted of a two-story summer house...
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    the largest grotto in the world. It is also "considered to be the world's most complete man-made collection of minerals, fossils, shells, and petrifications...
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    Château de Vendeuvre (category Shell grottoes)
    and bedding for pampered pets. Formal, utility and water gardens. A shell-lined grotto. Pavilions and follies Vendeuvre was built between 1750 and 1752 from...
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    Shellcraft (redirect from Shell craft)
    sailor's valentines; and larger constructions including mosaics and shell grottos. Shellcraft is sometimes simply a folk art which is carried out by amateurs...
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  • A shell room may refer to: Shell grotto – an early modern decorative folly The Shell Room at Woburn Abbey in England Magazine (artillery)#Naval magazines...
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  • Garden room Garden trellis Gazebo Gloriette Greenhouse Green wall Grotto Shell grotto Ha-ha Hedge Hedge maze Herbaceous border Herb garden Jeux d'eau Kitchen...
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    including ferns. They were created in a similar spirit to the fashionable shell grotto. This phase lasted from the late 17th century into the early 19th. During...
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    Seashell (redirect from Sea shell)
    and human-made shell grottos. A very large outdoor sculpture at Akkulam of a gastropod seashell is a reference to the sacred chank shell Turbinella pyrum...
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    produced.’ The estate is notable for the remains of a 'Shell Grotto'. The fashion for such grottoes was at its height in the later 18th century, popularised...
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    just south of Mynydd Garn-Wen. Less than a mile from the folly is the Shell Grotto. The precise date of construction is unknown but it is generally thought...
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    Leeds Castle (category Shell grottoes)
    centre is on a raised viewpoint, which also contains an exit through a shell grotto. The castle also offers accommodations for tourists including rental...
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    Woburn Abbey (category Shell grottoes)
    Woburn Abbey (/ˈwoʊbərn/), occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford...
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    Skipton Castle (category Shell grottoes)
    The east tower of the gatehouse contains a 17th-century shell grotto, one of two remaining grottos from this period (the other being at Woburn Abbey).[page needed]...
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    Endsleigh Cottage (category Shell grottoes)
    main house are Grade I listed: Rockery and Grotto, Stables, Salmon Larder and Ice House, Shell House and Grotto. Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford died...
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  • Art. The tent itself was square and blue; the shape reminiscent of the Shell Grotto, Margate, with which Emin was very familiar from childhood; on the tent's...
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    They reopened in 2019. The Shell Grotto, which has walls and roof covered in elaborate decorations of over four million shells covering 2,000 square feet...
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    were prominent in Britain from the end of the 16th century. The shell-decorated grotto is the only remaining relic of these features. It was used as a...
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    by Wirtz International, a pigeonnier tower, a pavilion containing a shell grotto, a building housing the archives of Valentino Garavani Archives. The...
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  • Pattern Picture Lolly Stick Picture – Grasshopper Another Creative Idea – Shell Grotto 28 13 February 2008 Creative Idea – Leaf Printing Hedgehog The Shapes...
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    facilities and is the home of Pontypool RFC. The park includes a folly, shell grotto and ornamental ponds. Much of the area is given to woodland but there...
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    Ironworks Big Pit National Coal Museum Folly Tower Garndiffaith Viaduct Shell Grotto Rivers and canals Afon Lwyd Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal Pontymoile...
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