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June 21st 04, 02:48 PM
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"John Cook" wrote in message ... No, but it might have something to do with the repainting it needed when an invading force burnt it down... It didn't have anything to do with that either. The building was first made white with lime-based whitewash in 1798, when its walls were finished, simply as a means of protecting the porous stone in freezing weather. 
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