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Chilworth Tower

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This article is about the villa south of Chilworth Manor House, and must be distinguished from The Tower of the Winds also at Chilworth.
The first Chilworth Tower, pictured around 1871
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The first Chilworth Tower, pictured around 1871
Chilworth Tower, as rebuilt after 1893
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Chilworth Tower, as rebuilt after 1893

Chilworth Tower, also known as The Tower, was a super-villa on the Chilworth Estate. The first Tower was built in 1854 by Richard Cockle Lucas, and was destroyed by fire in 1893.

Lessees and occupiers

  • Richard Cockle Lucas
  • George Simon Brinton
  • Miss Mary Lewis
  • Samuel Hamilton Goold-Adams
  • Major William Ringrose Ringrose-Voase
  • Elizabeth Frances Fortescue
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