View over the pond to the west front of the house at Petworth House and Park, West Sussex 
The North Gallery at Petworth House and Park, West Sussex. A rare surviving example of a purpose-built art gallery from the early 19th century, when British collectors dominated Europe. 
View over the pond to the west front of the house at Petworth House and Park, West Sussex 
A frosty winter day at Petworth, West Sussex. 
Inspired by the Baroque palaces of Europe, Petworth House is an extraordinary and surprising ancestral seat created by just one family over 900 years. The 17th-century building you see today comprises grand state rooms which form the centrepiece of your visit.
Designed to display the taste, lifestyle and artistic patronage of generations, the state rooms offer an infinity of paintings and sculpture, including major works by Van Dyck, Turner, Reynolds and Gainsborough. A particular highlight is the earliest English globe in existence dating back to 1592 . This remarkable collection reflects a journey of survival and success through the Tudor Reformation, Gunpowder Plot and the Napoleonic Wars.
The servants’ quarters by contrast offer a glimpse of life ‘below stairs’. Step inside some of these rooms and imagine the hustle and bustle of servant life.
The landscape gives every impression of being totally natural but in reality nothing is further from the truth. The park was transformed in the 1750s and early 1760s by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
CONTACT
petworth@nationaltrust.org.uk
01798342207
ADDRESS
Petworth House and Park,
Petworth, West Sussex,
GU28 9LR