Holkham Hall wedding map print

That young man was Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester, who spent six years on the Grand Tour from 1712 to 1718 and returned with books, paintings and sculpture. The foundations of his house were laid in 1734 and it was completed in 1764, with William Kent, Lord Burlington, Matthew Brettingham and Coke himself all given credit for the design.

Its yellow bricks were cast as exact copies of ancient Roman ones. Inside, the Marble Hall climbs more than 50 feet, built of pink Derbyshire alabaster and modelled by Kent on a Roman basilica. Outside, red and fallow deer graze the park, and the lake was made between 1801 and 1803 from what had been a marshy creek running in from the North Sea.

Two landmarks bracket the house, just beyond the edges of the artwork. To the south, the obelisk of 1730, older than the hall itself, stands on the highest ground in the park. To the north rises the Leicester Monument, a column raised between 1845 and 1848 for Coke of Norfolk. Between them the map holds the hall and the long lake running north through the park beside it, and somewhere in there, you were married.