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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Hamilton Palace]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Intangible Heritage]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Hamilton Palace in South Lanarkshire was once the grandest stately home in Scotland. It was developed over several centuries by the Hamilton family, eventually becoming a Palladian mansion which rivalled (and arguably surpassed) many royal residences. The demolition of the palace in the 1920s was a major loss to Scotland’s architectural heritage. Meanwhile, the sale of its furnishings and art collection brought about the dispersal of the country’s ‘biggest treasure trove’ (National Museum of Scotland 2016). Today, many are unaware of the scale and splendour of this vanished great house – a place that shortly before its destruction was praised as representing ‘the best that the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced’ (Country Life 1919). Hamilton Palace was demolished, after coal works beneath the house were discovered to threaten its structural integrity. "It is a thousand pities" wrote that doyen of departed country houses H. Avery Tipping in a preface to one of the 1919 Hamilton Palace sale catalogues, "that so great and historic a house should disappear. .. Within and without the Palace offers us of the best that the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced, and the present dispersal yields a very unusual opportunity of acquiring sumptuous examples of all three periods in the finest possible state of preservation."]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:license><![CDATA[In Copyright (InC)]]></dcterms:license>
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    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[1540]]></dcterms:identifier>
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