Places to see in ( Petworth - UK )
Places to see in ( Petworth - UK )
Petworth is a small town and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the junction of the A272 east-west road from Heathfield to Winchester and the A283 Milford to Shoreham-by-Sea road. Some twelve miles (21 km) to the south west of Petworth along the A285 road lies Chichester and the south-coast. The parish includes the settlements of Byworth and Hampers Green and covers an area of 2,690 hectares (6,600 acres).
The town is mentioned in Domesday Book. It is best known as the location of the stately home Petworth House, the grounds of which (known as Petworth Park) are the work of Capability Brown. The house and its grounds are now owned and maintained by the National Trust.
In the early 17th century, the question of Petworth's status as an honour or a town came up when the Attorney General charged William Levett of Petworth, Gent., son of Anthony Levett, with having unlawfully usurped divers privileges within the town of Petworth, which was parcel of the Honour of Arundel. William Levett's son Nicholas became rector of Westbourne, West Sussex.
Another historic attraction in the town, Petworth Cottage Museum in High Street, is a museum of domestic life for poor estate workers in the town in about 1910. At that time the cottage was the home of Mrs. Cummings, a seamstress, whose drunkard husband had been a farrier in the Royal Irish Hussars and on the Petworth estate. The railway line between Pulborough and Midhurst once had a station at Petworth, but the line was closed to passenger use in 1955, and finally to freight in 1966, though the station building survives as a bed and breakfast establishment.
Petworth fell victim to bombing in World War II on 29 September 1942, when a lone German Heinkel 111, approaching from the south over Hoes Farm, aimed three bombs at Petworth House. The bombs missed the house, but one bounced off a tree and landed on the Petworth Boys' School in North Street, killing 28 boys, the headmaster, Charles Stevenson, and assistant teacher Charlotte Marshall
On 20 November (St. Edmund's day) each year, the market square is closed off to traffic so that a fun fair can be held. This is the modern survival of an ancient custom. In earlier centuries the fair lasted several days and may have been wholly or partly held on a field on the south side of the town called fairfield. The London Gazette of November 1666 announced that a fair would not be held that year because of plague still infesting the county, and shows that the fair was then a nine-day event.
Local tradition tells of a lost charter for the fair, but this is myth because it was determined by travelling justices of King Edward I in 1275 that the fair, then lasting eight days, had already been in existence since time immemorial and no royal charter was needed. At that time tolls on stalls for the sale of cattle provided an income for the Lord of the Manor. The traders of Arundel claimed a right to sell their wares at the fair as Petworth was in the Honour of Arundel. In the 20th century the fair field was used for allotments, and is now housing and the Fairfield Medical Centre.
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Petworth House, West Sussex Quick Tour
The is a record of my visit to Petworth House in West Sussex on 11th May 2014. It is a National Trust property that has a fantastic art collection. Like many Trust houses they allow photography providing you do not use flash.
I used this as an opportunity to try out my new Sony A6000 with 16-50 lens. Like many of these old houses the lighting is kept low to reduce fading to the exhibits, and I was quite pleased at how well the camera performed under these difficult conditions. The Soundtrack is a traditional tune called Bonaparte's Retreat played by Rick Townend from his Just the Tune album volume 5 available form traditionalmusic.co.uk.
A Look Around Whittakers Cottages W&D Museum
Taking a tour of Whittakers Cottages at the Weald and Downland Living museum.
This pair of cottages was built in the mid 1860s, facing the newly opened Epsom-Leatherhead railway. They were built for rent and were occupied by agricultural labourers. One of the cottages has been left unfinished inside, to expose the timber-framed structure. The other has been furnished to a late-19th century date.
Th Bald Explorer and the History of Petworth.
Richard Vobes is the Bald Explorer, dashing about Britain discovering the history of its towns and villages. In this episode her is off to Petworth in the heart of West Sussex, close to Chichester and not too far from London. It is a very rural town renown for the beautiful mansion house, upon which land once belong to the Roger de Montgomery and later the de Percy family.
It was the third Earl of Egremont who had a vested interested in the town of Petworth. He supplied the money to build the boys school, which was later destroyed by a stray German bomber during the second World War. It was the Earl who brought water from the near by Rover Rother into the town centre and who land it was the grim House of Correction was built for offenders from all over Sussex.
One of the prettiest streets can be found in Petworth, complete with old shop fronts and cobbles on the ground and the Bald Explorer reveals that he once lived there.
Back in the 19th century, many of the poor were assisted out of poverty and given the chance of a new life in Canada thanks to the local rector. Also, many do not realise that a special kind of stone, Petworth Marble was mined from this area and made into all sorts of wonderful objects.
Of course, most visitors , if not travelling to see Petworth House, go to hunt around the abundance of antique shops that flank the roads or take refreshment inside the independent tea rooms.
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Petworth House and Park
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A stately mansion nestled in the South Downs housing the finest art collection in the care of the National Trust.
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Phases 2 & 3: Reynolds conservation - Petworth House & Park
Watch the team at Petworth House as they complete phases 2 and 3 of the most ambitious painting conservation project undertaken at Petworth House to date.
With thanks to Patina Art Collection Care Ltd and Sophie Reddington, Paintings Conservator and team.
Eedes Cottage, Petworth
Eedes Cottage, Bignor Park Road, Bury Gate, Pulborough, Petworth, West Sussex, RH20 1EZ, England
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Petworth House and Park - National Trust
The vast late 17th-century mansion is set in a beautiful 283-hectare (700-acre) deer park, landscaped by 'Capability' Brown and immortalised in Turner's paintings. The house contains the National Trust's finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake, ancient and Neo-classical sculpture, fine furniture and carvings by Grinling Gibbons. The servants' quarters contain fascinating kitchens (including a copper batterie de cuisine of more than 1,000 pieces) and other service rooms. On weekdays additional rooms in the house are open by kind permission of Lord and Lady Egremont.
Petworth - Christmas 2014
Alex, Henry, Elsa and Ellis visit Father Christmas at Petworth House National Trust property, West Sussex
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Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin.[1] The site was previously occupied by a fortified manor house 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 J. M. W. Turner (some owned by the family, some by Tate Britain), who was a regular visitor to Petworth, paintings by Van Dyck, carvings by Grinling Gibbons and Ben Harms, classical and neoclassical sculptures (including ones by John Flaxman and John Edward Carew), and wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre. There is also a terrestrial globe by Emery Molyneux, believed to be the only one in the world in its original 1592 state.[2]
It stands in a 283-hectare (700-acre)[3] 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 12-hectare (30-acre) woodland garden, known as the Pleasure Ground.[4]
The Deer in Petworth Park, J. M. W. Turner, 1827
For the past 250 years the house and the estate have been in the hands of the Wyndham family — currently Lord Egremont. He and his family live in the south wing, allowing much of the remainder to be open to the public. Lady Egremont has restored the gardens. [5]
The house and deer park were handed over to the nation in 1947 and are now managed by the National Trust under the name Petworth House & Park. The Leconfield Estates continue to own much of Petworth and the surrounding area. As an insight into the lives of past estate workers the Petworth Cottage Museum has been established in High Street, Petworth, furnished as it would have been in about 1910.
Petworth House is home to the Petworth House Real Tennis Club (many such private estates held real tennis courts).
Unusually for a country mansion of its size, Petworth House and Park are immediately adjacent to the town of Petworth, with it shops and restaurants.
Lyon Cottage, Petworth
Lyon Cottage, Bury Gate, Petworth, West Sussex, RH20 1EY, England
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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip in Petworth, West Sussex
John Torode visits Antique shops in Petworth, West Sussex
On the Bus - Route 1 - Midhurst to Petworth - Strætóferð í Englandi - Ferðalag
Stagecoach No 1 service between Midhurst, Bus Station to Petworth, Market Square on 2 March 2017. Bus trip in the South Downs National Park. Strætóferð í Englandi milli tveggja gamalla þorpa. I took the bus from Midhurst to Petworth and on the way was very interesting to see through the window. Beautiful surroundings, Vine House, Benbow Pond, old houses and a lot of old trees.
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The town is mentioned in Domesday Book. It is best known as the location of the stately home Petworth House, the grounds of which (known as Petworth Park) are the work of Capability Brown. The house and its grounds are now owned and maintained by the National Trust. In the early 17th century, the question of Petworth's status as an honour or a town came up when the Attorney General charged William Levett of Petworth, Gent., son of Anthony Levett, with having unlawfully usurped divers privileges within the town of Petworth, which was parcel of the Honour of Arundel. William Levett's son Nicholas became rector of Westbourne, West Sussex. Another historic attraction in the town, Petworth Cottage Museum in High Street, is a museum of domestic life for poor estate workers in the town in about 1910. At that time the cottage was the home of Mrs. Cummings, a seamstress, whose drunkard husband had been a farrier in the Royal Irish Hussars and on the Petworth estate. See more:
Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt 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 George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), containing many works by his friend Turner. It also has an expansive deer park, landscaped by Capability Brown, which contains the largest herd of fallow deer in England. See more:
Petworth house. A stately mansion nestled in the South Downs housing the finest art collection in the care of the National Trust. See more:
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Midhurst nestles at the centre of the South Downs National Park and makes the perfect base to get out and explore this beautiful landscape: unique heathland with wide horizons, rare birds, open chalkland and wild flowers galore. See more:
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Benbow Pond lies on the Cowdray Estate near Midhurst in Sussex. The Pond is home to a wide range of birds, ducks and Black Swans. On the East shore of the Pond is a Memorial or Folly constructed in memory of the 3rd Viscount of Cowdray who died in 2000. Close by at the Northern end of the Pond are some holiday cottages and to West lies a Golf Course. The area has many paths and walks surrounding it and is popular spot for a cup of coffee, lunch and tea or just a few minutes peacefull rest.
THE BEAUTIFUL MARKET TOWN OF PETWORTH, A CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE, IS SET IN THE HEART OF THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AND SURROUNDED BY THE WALLS OF PETWORTH HOUSE AND PARK. See more:
Petworth House
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Petworth House Great Staircase
This is the Great Staircase at Petworth House in West Sussex. The house was originally built in the 17th century with additions in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The great staircase featured here was painted and constructed after a fire in 1714 - it is incredible!
The house also features a extremely important collection sculpture and paintings. The third Earl Egremont commissioned JMW Turner to paint the estate, as a result there is also an amazing collection of 'Turner' paintings.
Athenian inscription in Petworth House (AIUK 1)
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Petworth House - Rural Capers Touring Company
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Sculpture Gallery at Petworth House
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Uppark House & Harting Down
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Uppark is a 17th-century house in South Harting, Petersfield, West Sussex, England and a National Trust property.
Harting Down is an area of open downland on the scarp slope of the South Downs just to the south of South Harting. It's a special place because of the spectacular views it gives of the countryside to the north. The Down is now managed as a nature reserve
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The story behind this masterpiece by Turner on show at Petworth
Turner and the Age of British Watercolour is the new exhibition at Petworth, the National Trust's house and parkland in West Sussex.
The exhibition includes seven compelling watercolours by JMW Turner, plus 29 iconic examples of watercolour by such great contemporaries as John Constable, Paul Sandby, John Robert Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Francis Towne, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Sell Cotman and David Cox.
Among the highlights of the exhibition is one of Turner’s greatest and best-known watercolours, A First Rate Taking in Stores, 1818. This extraordinary work provides the ideal springboard from which to consider how Turner’s watercolours and oils were actually painted. It remains the only example recorded by an eye-witness who saw it being made:
'He began by pouring wet paint on to the paper until it was saturated, he tore, he scratched, he scrabbled at it in a kind of frenzy and the whole thing was in chaos – but gradually and as if by magic the lovely ship, with all its exquisite minutia came into being and by luncheon time the drawing was taken down in triumph.'
Open from 7 January - 12 March 2017, Turner and the Age of British Watercolour offers a rare opportunity to see a major dimension of British art not normally encountered at Petworth and to consider it alongside our renowned collection of oil paintings and sculpture from the same golden period, 1780-1850.
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