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It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. [3] The building has more than 300 rooms, with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2 ) of floorspace, [ 4 ] including 124,600 square feet (11,580 m 2 ) of living area, and was – until it ceased to be privately owned – often listed as the largest private residence in the United ...
The Wentworth Castle Heritage Trust was formed in 2002 as a charity with the aim "to undertake a phased programme of restoration and development works which will provide benefit to the general public by providing extensive access to the parkland and gardens and the built heritage, conserving these important heritage assets for future generations."
Watson-Wentworth was born at Tidmington, Worcestershire the only son and heir of Thomas Watson (later Watson-Wentworth, the third son of Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham) and his wife, Alice Proby, a daughter of Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 15 May 1707 and was awarded MA in 1708. [1]
The mausoleum is built of ashlar sandstone. [2] It is a 90 feet (27 m) high [1] three-stage monument, with obelisks at the four corners. [2] Niches in the walls support busts of eight of the Marquis's closest friends, all luminaries of the Whig hierarchy; Admiral Viscount Keppel, Edmund Burke, Sir George Savile, Charles James Fox, The Duke of Portland, John Lee, Lord John Cavendish and ...
The lodge at the entrance to the grounds of Wentworth Woodhouse is in sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in the form of a tetrastyle Greek Doric temple. There are two storeys and a single-storey extension to the rear. On the front are two steps, four fluted columns, a triglyph frieze, a mutule cornice, and a pediment.
— Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire for Lady Juliet Tadgell (Sotheby's, c. 2,000 lots sold on site and in London: 1–2 March & 26–28 April Sotheby's books; 11 & 15 July Christie's furniture at Spencer House; 14 October Christie's ceramics) 1947 Apr 15 - May 20 (7) – Lowther Castle, Westmoreland for the 5th Earl of Lonsdale (Maple & Co.)
It is set in the only Grade I listed landscape in South Yorkshire, Wentworth Castle Gardens. [1] The Northern College. The college is one of the two residential adult education colleges in the United Kingdom. It is also one of the Institutes for Adult Learning. [2] It is a registered charity. [3]
Sir William Wentworth (1562-1614) was an English landowner. He was born in 1562, the son of Thomas Wentworth and Margaret Gascoigne or Gascoyne, heiress of Gawthorpe. His sister was Elizabeth Wentworth who was the mother of the heir Christopher Danby (1582–1624). [ 1 ]