Other attractions and places to eat in the area
In addition to the high quality exhibitions we stage, the gallery is a great day’s excursion. There are stunning walks, unspoilt villages, excellent local pubs for lunch and many other art galleries and antique shops in close vicinity. Glorious Goodwood, The Goodwood Sculpture Park, Pallant House Art Gallery in Chichester, the historic houses, Cowdray, Petworth House, Parham House and the gardens of West Dean College are all near by. Petworth is jam packed with antique and decorating shops as well as the well know Arden and Anstruther Photography Gallery and Arundel with its Castle, antique shops and galleries is twenty minutes away.
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood
An outstanding 26 acre sculpture garden showing over 70 monumental contemporary British sculptures. The Foundation commissions fresh work every year, sculptors currently on view include Tony Cragg, Bill Woodrow, Helaine Blunfeld, and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Petworth House
The vast late 17th-century mansion is set in a 700-acre deer park, landscaped by ‘Capability’ Brown and immortalised in Turner’s paintings. It houses the National Trust’s finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/petworth
Cowdray Historic Tudor House
One of England’s finest Tudor houses which was partially destroyed by fire in 1798 and now open as a major visitor centre.
Parham House
This wonderful Elizabethan house was restored by Clive Pearson in 1922. It still retains the atmosphere of a family home today with its fine interiors, Oliver Messel ceiling in the long gallery and its outstanding gardens and park lands.
Pallant House Art Gallery, Chichester
A first class collection of modern British art including works by Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney, and post-war modernism by Freud, Howard Hodgkin and Henry Moore. The gallery has recently reopened in an award winning building designed by Coin St John Wilson with a constantly changing programme of loan exhibitions
Arden Anstruther Gallery, Petworth
This is a wonderful photography collection acquired by the late Paul and Toni Arden over thirty years. It ranges from the 1930s to the present day and contains many iconic images. As well as the permanent collection, the gallery holds regular exhibitions of the new and the old, the young and the great.
West Dean College
Formerly the home of the Surrealist Collector and friend of Salvador Dali, Sir Edward James, West Dean is now an arts and conservation college. The gardens which are open all the year include the restored Walled Kitchen Garden, one of the finest in England.
Sofas and Stuff
An outstanding range of designer sofas and chairs in all styles and sizes located in a barn complex. Friendly personal service.
We also heartily recommended the following pubs and restaurants for ambience and excellent food - all minutes from the gallery.
The Leconfield Restaurant, Petworth
The Welldiggers, Petworth
The Black Horse, Byworth
The Swan, Fittleworth