Petworth House & Park

Website http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-petworthhouse.htm

Classification Historic Building

DescriptionPetworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom, is a late 17th-century mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin. The site was previously occupied by a castle founded by Henry de Percy, the 13th-century chapel and undercroft of which still survive.

Today's building houses an important collection of paintings and sculptures, including 19 oil paintings by Turner, who was a regular visitor to Petworth, paintings by Van Dyck, carvings by Grinling Gibbons and murals by Louis Laguerre.

It stands in a 700 acre (2.8 km²) landscaped park, known as Petworth Park, which was designed by 'Capability' Brown. The park is one of the more famous in England, largely on account of a number of pictures of it which were painted by Turner. It is inhabited by the largest herd of fallow deer in England. There is also a 30 acre woodland garden, known as the Pleasure Ground.

For the past 250 years, the house and the estate have been in the hands of the Wyndham family — currently John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont & 7th Baron Leconfield. He and his family live in the south wing, allowing much of the remainder to be open to the public.

The estate was handed over to the nation in 1947 and is now managed by the National Trust under the name "Petworth House & Park".

Petworth is also home to the Petworth House Real Tennis Club. Many such private estates held real tennis courts, such as the Royal County of Berkshire Real Tennis Club in Holyport and the former home of George Jay Gould II, now Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.

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The AddressPetworth House & Park, , Petworth, GU28 0AE

Phone01798 342207

DateAug 15, 2006

Contact NamePetworth House & Park

CategoryEngland > West Sussex
England > West Sussex > Attractions in Bognor Regis

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