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New Wardour Castle

England · 18th century

Founded
1776
Style
Palladian architecture
Architect
James Paine
Heritage status
Grade I listed building
Location
Tisbury
Coordinates
51.0416°, -2.10421°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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New Wardour Castle in England
Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city, Saint Petersburg.

The building of the house was begun in 1769 and completed in 1776, with additional buildings being added in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1961 to 1990, it was the home of Cranborne Chase School, an independent boarding school for girls.

New Wardour Castle is approximately 0.75 miles (1.2 km) from Old Wardour Castle, which was left as a landscape feature of the parkland of the new house. This was formerly the home of the Arundell family before it was besieged, damaged and slighted in the Civil War.

Text adapted from “New Wardour Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

New Wardour Castle ranks #5,977 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #367 of the 397 mapped in England. Founded 1776, it is older than 14% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,111 times in the last 60 days, more than 58% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Southampton, 51 km away. See how England compares in the castle statistics.

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