There has been a house at Gatton Park since 1086

History

History

An ancient place

Gatton existed as far back as Saxon times

It was still a manor when the Normans recorded it (as ‘Gatone’) in the Domesday Book some centuries later.

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Gatton in parliament

“a very rascally spot of earth”

Gatton was given parliamentary borough status in 1450 when the Duke of Norfolk was looking to improve his bargaining position during the Wars of the Roses.

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Owners who left their mark

The famed Marble Hall was modelled on the Corsini Chapel in Rome.

Sir James Colebrooke commissioned ‘Capability’ Brown to transform Gatton Park into a classic English ‘natural’ landscape.

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Fire at Gatton

In 1934 disaster struck.

A fire, starting in the cellar completely gutted and destroyed the famous house and Marble Hall along with many of its irreplaceable treasures.

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