Corsham Court, a Royal Manor in the days of the Saxon Kings and now home of the Methuen family, is based on an Elizabethan house dating from 1582. It was bought by Paul Methuen in the mid-18th century to house a collection of 16th and 17th century Italian and Flemish Old Master paintings and statuary.
The house and park today are principally the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, John Nash and Thomas Bellamy. Brown set the style by retaining the Elizabethan stables, the Riding School and the great gabled front of the house. This latter aspect he doubled into the gabled wings at either end of the house, creating within the east wing the magnificent Picture Gallery.
The State Rooms provide the setting for the outstanding collection of over 140 paintings, the statuary, bronzes and furniture. The collection includes the works by such names as Adam, Chippendale, Lippi, Reynolds, Romney, Rubens and Van Dyck.
The Gardens were designed by 'Capability' Brown who planned to include a 13-acre lake, eventually completed by Humphry Repton nearly 40 years later. Brown also built the Gothic Bath House, laid out the avenues and provided for the Specimen Trees such as the Oriental Plane, which now has a circumference of over 240 yards.
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