{"id":2750,"date":"2017-05-16T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:35:09","slug":"corsham-court-wiltshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2750","title":{"rendered":"Corsham Court, Wiltshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9722.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2792\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9722.jpg\" alt=\"House front\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9722.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9722-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <em>Privately Owned<\/em><br \/>\nCorsham Court dates from 1582, and was bought by Sir Paul Methuen in the mid 18th century to display his celebrated collection of 16th and 17th century Old Master paintings. A second collection was added through inheritance in the mid 19th century. The house was extended to accommodate the paintings using as architect Capability Brown, who also designed the gardens and park. The interiors retain many original features including plasterwork, wall hangings and furniture by Chippendale, Thomas Johnson, etc. The paintings include works by Van Dyck, Carlo Dolci, Fillipo Lippi, Salvator Rosa, Reynolds and Romney.<br \/>\nSurrounding the park today are the impressive gardens designed by Capability Brown and including a Gothic bath-house, a 13 acre lake and a ha-ha.<br \/>\nBath Spa University uses parts of the house and grounds.<br \/>\nFree parking is available outside the house next to the church. The house and gardens are opened frequently throughout the year, in the afternoon. A curator and room guides are available to answer questions.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2793\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9723.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2793\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Corsham_9723-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Surviving Nash outbuilding\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2793\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surviving Nash work<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2794\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9724.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2794\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9724-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gardens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2794\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2795\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9725.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2795\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9725-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Peacock in garden\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2795\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peacock<\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_2796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2796\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9726.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2796\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Corsham_9726-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bath house folly\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2796\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bath house<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privately Owned Corsham Court dates from 1582, and was bought by Sir Paul Methuen in the mid 18th century to display his celebrated collection of 16th and 17th century Old Master paintings. A second collection was added through inheritance in the mid 19th century. The house was extended to accommodate the paintings using as architect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=2750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corsham Court, Wiltshire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}