Wilton House and its Gardens

Wilton House is situated in Wiltshire, near to Salisbury in the South West of England. For the past 400 years, this country house has, and still is, the official residence of the Earl of Pembroke.

Wilton House was originally a run-down Abbey, but Welshman William Herbert, in 1551, transformed the Abbey into a magnificent manor. You can still see the original Tudor building around the lower walls, but the majority of it was demolished throughout its life.

In 1630, Inigo Jones, the 4th Earl of Pembroke, decided to renovate the Abbey again. It was at this time that the Palladian influences from Venice could be seen in a lot of architecture around Western Europe.

In 1632, Isaac de Ceus, a French landscape gardener, began a project that developed the first French Parterre in England. A parterre is a French style garden with gravel paths and clipped hedges.

In 1801, James Wyatt was employed by George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, to renovate the house further, in order to make more space for personal effects. The Abbey was changed from a Palladian design to a Gothic style “castle”. It was at this time that the Cloisters were built: a large gallery surrounding the house, which was used to house many of the family’s paintings.

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