Galleries · South East England
Petworth House
Petworth House — historic estate museum in West Sussex, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Stopham Road · 6.8 km
- Paid entry
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Petworth House is an art gallery in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1688. Designed by Anthony Salvin. Built in the baroque architecture style. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Owned by National Trust. Managed by National Trust. Part of National Trust. Address: GU28 0AE. Wikidata describes it as: "historic estate museum in West Sussex, England, UK". Coordinates: 50.9881°, -0.6110°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin. It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of the manor of Petworth. For centuries it was the southern home for the Percy family, earls of Northumberland. Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection made by the Northumberland and Seymour/Somerset families and George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), containing many works by his friend J. M. W. Turner. It also has an expansive deer park, landscaped by Capability Brown, which contains a large herd of fallow deer.
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Background
Visiting
The house and deer park were handed over to the nation in 1947 by Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952), and are now managed by the National Trust under the name Petworth House & Park. In its 2018/2019 Annual Report, the Trust reported that Petworth House received 178,760 visitors. In its 2022 Annual Report, the Trust reported that Petworth House received 147,079 visitors in 2021–22, having had a dip in numbers to 88,600 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21. Today's building houses an important collection of paintings and sculptures, including 20 oil paintings by J. M. W. Turner, who was a regular visitor to Petworth, paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Joshua Reynolds,…
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- Coordinates
- 50.9881, -0.6110
- County
- West Sussex
- District
- Chichester
- Parish
- Petworth
- Postcode
- GU28 0AE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Arundel and South Downs
- Established
- 1688
- Nearest railway station
- Stopham Road — 6.8 km
- Official site
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q2081335 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Petworth House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: 20080323 Petworth House (5).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Petworth House?
- Petworth House is in West Sussex, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode GU28 0AE), in the parish of Petworth.
- When was Petworth House built?
- Built or established in 1688. Designed by Anthony Salvin.
- Who runs Petworth House?
- Petworth House is operated by National Trust.
- Is Petworth House a listed building?
- Petworth House is officially recognised as Grade I listed building listed.
- How do I get to Petworth House?
- The nearest railway station is Stopham Road, about 6.8 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode GU28 0AE.