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Painshill Park 
Cobham, Surrey, England
Status: Fully Extant
Cobham, Surrey, England
Status: Fully Extant
Special Info / Location/ Date
Special Info
Phonetic Pronunciation of House Name
Location
Country
England
District Today
Surrey
Historic County
Town / City
Cobham
Latitude
51.32811
Longitude
-0.41045
Date
Start Date
Completion Date
Circa Date
Images
The Gothic Temple
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The Gothic Temple
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The Gothic Temple
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The Mausoleum
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The Turkish Tent
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Architects
| Designed | Grotto on island of Pleasure Grounds |
| Date | |
| Designed | Park |
| Date | |
| Designed | Temple of Bacchus |
| Date | 1761 |
Extant / Listed / References
Extant
Extant Type
Fully Extant
Extant Details
Listed
House Listed As
Unknown
Gardens Listed As
Unknown
On SAVE Britain's Heritage's List of Buildings at Risk
No
Country House: Yes
References
Vitruvius Britannicus
Vitruvius Scoticus
J.B. Burke (Burke's Visitation of Seats)
Vol.I, p.217. 1852.
Country Life
CXXIII, 18. 1958. 13 Dec. 1979.
J.P. Neale (Neale's Views of Seats)
2.S. Vol.I. 1824.
Access / Ownership / Seat
Access
Open to Public Please note: Houses listed as being open "By Appointment" are usually country house hotels or B&Bs.
Grounds Only
Historic Houses Association Member
Yes
Phone Number If calling from the U.S., delete the first "0" in British numbers.
01932-868-113
Fax Number
01932-868-001
Email
Website
Awards
Europa Nostra Award
Current Ownership
Current Ownership Type
Preservation Organization
Primary Current Ownership Use
Visitor Attraction
Current Ownership Details
The gardens are owned and operated by Painshill Park Trust. Painshill House is now flats.
Seat ("Seat" is loosely defined
as any family that occupied the house for a period of 2 years or more)
Today Seat of
A Past Seat(s) of
Charles Hamilton, 18th century.
Possible (Unsure) Seat of
History / Gardens & Park / Movies
History
Earlier House(s) / Building(s)
House Replaced By
Built / Designed For
House & Family History
The House has been converted into apartments and has been separated from the pleasure gardens in different ownership.
Collections
This field lists art objects that are currently or were previously in the collection of the house.
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Comments
The garden restoration remains one of the finest examples of garden conservation in Europe.
Gardens & Park
Garden, Park, Follies and Outbuildings
The grounds at Painshill were created by Charles Hamilton between 1738 and 1773 (Hamilton was William Beckford's great uncle). The gardens were conceived and laid out as pleasure grounds for fashionable 18th century society and contain a 14-acre lake fed from the river by a large waterwheel, a Grotto, the Chinese Bridge, a ruined Abbey, Robert Adam’s Temple of Bacchus (1761), the Mausoleum, the castellated Tower, the Turkish Tent, and a vineyard. Painshill is today one of Europe's finest 18th century landscape gardens and is now undergoing a faithful restoration by the charitable Painshill Park Trust.
Chapel & Church
Movies
Location for Movies / TV
"Wings of the Dove" (1997). "Dorian Gray" (2009)
Bibliography
| Author | Colvin, Howard |
| Year Published | 1995 |
| Reference |
| Author | Harris, John |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Reference |
| Author | Mowl, Timothy |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Reference |
| Author | The National Gardens Scheme |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Reference |
| Author | Ostergard, Derek E. (Editor) |
| Year Published | 2001 |
| Reference | pg. 136 |
Related Resources
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