Petworth Park

United Kingdom / England / Petworth /
 landscape park, movie / film / TV location
Petworth Park and House is a magnificent country estate with an internationally important art collection

Petworth came to the Percy family in 1151. The Percy manor was repaired and extended by the 8th, 9th and 10th Earls of Northumberland in the late 16th and early 17th-centuries.

The 6th Duke of Somerset Charles Seymour employed royal craftsmen in the rebuilding and refurbishing of Petworth. His formal gardens were replaced in the 1750s by one of 'Capability' Brown's most poetic 'natural' landscapes, immortalised in Turner's paintings.

In 1947 Charles, 3rd Lord Leconfield, gave the house and park with an endowment to the National Trust, thus ensuring their permanent preservation.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-petworthhouse

Petworth House has been used as a filming location in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon, using the 14th century medieval chapel for the wedding of Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) to the Countess of Lyndon (Marisa Berenson).

Petworth Park was also a stand in for Windsor Park in the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen. The park was used for the horse riding scene with Elizabeth and Raleigh

Source: www.workingtitlefilms.com/featureProductionDiary.php?fe...
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Coordinates:   50°59'45"N   -0°37'27"E

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  • 15/01/10 Removed "House" from title as the 'Petworth House' tag (ticked as a building) has been created separately. Sevilla and cococherry are the original contributors to this tag.
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