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Lodge Park is a coursing pavilion and magnificent grandstand built within the park on the Sherborne Estate in Gloucestershire. It is one of very few structures to survive in the style of and from the time of Inigo Jones (who died in 1652).

The building comprises of only two big public rooms. One of them, the Double Cube Room, took up the whole of the first floor and was used for banqueting. From it opened a broad balcony. From here and from the leads of the roof spectators watched the deer coursing taking place in front of the building. The roof also gave glimpses into the park, with its holding corrals for deer. Jonathan Myles-Lea drew the exterior of Lodge Park, reconstructed the staircase, and provided a renovation scheme for the interior rooms as part of an application by 'The National Trust' for help in the restoration of the building from various European bodies. The work is now complete and Lodge Park is open to visitors.

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