Clandon

Clandon Estate

Clandon Park

Clandon House.  Grand 18th-century Palladian mansion Built c.1730 by the Venetian architect Giacol Leoni. Clandon is notable for its magnificent two-storeyed Marble Hall. The house is filled with the superb collection of 18th-century furniture, porcelain, textiles and carpets acquired in the 1920s by the connoisseur Mr David Gubbay. It also contains the Ivo Forde Meissen collection of Italian comedy figures a series of Mortlake tapestries. Built by Earls of Onslow.  National Trust. Has been the seat since 1642 of the Onslows, created earls in 1715.  Three of the family became Speakers of the House of Commons, the most notable being Arthur Onslow, 1691-1768, though he never lived at Clandon.  The impressive brick mansion, in the Palladian style, was built between 1713 and 1731 by Giacomo Leoni, the noted Venetian architect, and is one of the few surviving examples of his work.  The interior, carefully restored after 1870, is remarkable for its splendid plaster ceilings, perhaps by Albert Artari, and its chimney-pieces and reliefs by Rysbrack.  It has early Georgian furniture, 17-18th-century English tapestries, and family portraits by Kneller and others.

Stables.

Lodges

Garden. The garden around the house is laid out informally, apart from the parterre beneath the south front. The principal front faces parkland, laid out in the style of 'Capability Brown' around 1770. Created in 1901 a Dutch garden modelled on the pond garden at Hampton Court Palace. The large bulb field looks stunning in spring.

Wrought-iron gates 1776

Delightful park, with its lake and grotto, was laid out by 'Capability' Brown, the famous 18th-century landscape gardener.

Grotto behind, cut into the hillside, three naked ladies - The Three Graces.  Genuine grotto 18' high into the hill.

Circular Ionic Temple

Maori House.  Shipped over from New Zealand by the fourth Earl of Onslow.

Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum

The Street

West Clandon Church. It is close to ancient droveways to the weald