Chippenham Park

The Chippenham Park Estate was acquired by Thomas Revett, a London merchant, in 1558.

It passed to the Russell family around 1600 and the present house was commissioned by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford in 1689.

[1] It was acquired by John Tharp in 1791[2] and remained in the ownership of the Tharp family until 1948 when it inherited by a nephew Basil Bacon.

[1] It remained in the Bacon family until it was inherited by Mr and Mrs Eustace Crawley in 1985.

The house is now a wedding venue.

Chippenham Park
The Whig Junto by John James Baker, 1710. It was commissioned by a former owner of the house the Earl of Orford to hang there. Today it is in the Tate Britain in London