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Petworth House| Late 17th-century mansion in West Sussex, England, 21 km/13 mi northeast of Chichester. It was rebuilt 1688–96 by the 6th Duke of Somerset. The west front of the house is 98 m/321 ft long. In 1947 the 3rd Lord Leconfield gave the house and 300 ha/740 acres of park to the National Trust. |
| Much of the furniture and contents of the house was lent to the Trust by the Treasury, including many paintings by J M W Turner, who was a friend of the 3rd Lord Egremont and often stayed at Petworth. There are also paintings here by Van Dyck, Claude, and Poussin, a large collection of antique and 18th-century sculpture, and a room carved by Grinling Gibbons. |
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| It has many historical buildings such as Barnham Windmill, High Salvington windmill, Shipley Windmill, Cobnor House the Home to the Beale Family who were all the time involved with Chichester Harbour, Uppark, Goodwood House and Goodwood Motor Circuit, Petworth House, Arundel Castle, Standen, East Grinstead, Sackville College, a Jacobean almshouse in East Grinstead, Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead a home of the McIndoe burns centre. His father, a retired colonel, came from a grand family (he was connected to the Wyndhams who owned Petworth House in Sussex, though I'm not sure exactly how) and was much older than his mother, with the result that everything is 'a bit lopsided in my family'. She was born in Petworth House, Sussex, where her mother Margaret, a laundry maid from Redcar, worked, while her father Joseph Stedman was a clockmaker and jeweller. |
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