Glynde Place

Glynde Place is a splendid Elizabethan mansion with fine views over the South Downs.

The house is still in the hands of the same family which has held the property for 800 years, the present owners being Viscount and Viscountess Hampden.

The original medieval house was replaced in Elizabethan times when the property passed by marriage from the Waleys to the Morleys. They used local flint and chalk to build their house and imported Caen stone from Normandy for the windows and doorways. Later the house passed again by marriage to the Trevor family.

One of their descendants, Richard Trevor, was Bishop of St Albans and Durham. The Bishop remodelled the interior of Glynde Place in a classical style and the Georgian hall, with marbled wooden columns, is a fine example of his work.

The gallery at the centre of the house has a notable collection of 17th and 18th century portraits of the Trevor family, including the Bishop.

Elsewhere in the house is an exhibition of 'Habart Morley and the Great Rebellion of 1638 - 1660', showing the owner of Glynde Place's role in the Civil War. Another room is dedicated to Sir Henry Bland who was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1872 - 1884.

Glynde Place also houses a collection of 18th century Italian masterpieces and many fine pieces of furniture and objects collected by the family over the past 800 years.