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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. [2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of ...
Pitshill is a Grade II* listed house built in the neoclassical style and is located within the Parish of Tillington a couple of miles west of Petworth. Begun by William Mitford in 1760 on the site of an earlier house it was completed by his son, also William, in 1794. [1] It is considered to be one of the most important country houses in West ...
Petworth House was one of the main locations for the 2014 Mike Leigh film Mr. Turner, which put Timothy Spall as the artist Turner in the actual locations where he painted in the early 19th century. [citation needed] The Petworth Society was founded in 1974 to protect the character and amenities of the parishes of Petworth and Byworth. [16]
Orchard Wyndham, west front Orchard Wyndham, south front Painting of Orchard Wyndham, 18th century English School, National Trust, collection of Petworth House.Northward beyond the house is the town of Watchet and its harbour (with pier built by Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (1687–1740)), historically part of the estate, on the Bristol Channel
West Dean House is a large flint-faced manor house situated in West Dean, West Sussex, near the historic City of Chichester. This country estate has approximately 6,350 acres (25.7 km 2 ) of land and dates back to 1086, with various royal connections throughout the years.
The first piped water supply to Petworth was established in the early 16th century by Rev. John Edmunds, the local Rector, who installed a 3 in (76 mm) diameter lead pipe from springs, at the junction of the lower greensand and Atherfield clay, [24] in Boxgrove Paddock, about 1 mi (1.6 km) west of the town, to supply the Manor House (now ...
Bedham is a hamlet 4 kilometres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) east of Petworth in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.It is in the civil parish of Wisborough Green.. Bedham consists of a farm, a derelict Victorian church and school, and a scattering of houses set high on a wooded sandstone ridge of the western Weald, at 150 metres above sea level.
The building was commissioned to replace a timber framed market house which dated back at least to the 15th century. By the late 18th century, the old building had become dilapidated and the lord of the manor, George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont, whose seat was at Petworth House, decided to demolish the old building and replace it with a new structure on the same site. [2]