A visit has been arranged to Ribston Hall near Wetherby with the kind permission of the Hon Mrs Dent. This will be followed by a special festive luncheon at The Crown Inn, Roecliffe, near Bororoughbridge for a second year.   Ribston Hall is the fine late 17th century house, built for the Goodricke family, with... Continue reading→

Paxton House have organised a series of furniture study days and these are open to members of The Chippendale Society. Please click the link below for further information. Paxton House Furniture Study Days 2016 (1)

Visit to Lyme Park 10th May 2016 Our arrival at this palace on the edge of the Pennines took place in driving rain but this did not dampen our enthusiasm for enjoying its treasures. Having been given to the National Trust by the 3rd Lord Newton in 1946 the house stood almost empty and bereft... Continue reading→

 This pier table was originally made for the Circular Dressing Room at Harewood House, north of Leeds. It was purchased by the Chippendale Society in 1976 following a sale of a number of items from Harewood. The room that it was made for is no longer in existence. The table was in a much damaged... Continue reading→

The AGM will be held at Temple Newsam (in the Still Room) on 30th April at 11.30. Coffee will be served from 11.00. It will be followed by an optional lunch in the Dining Room, and a lecture at 2.00 from Dr Lucy Wood: Thomas Chippendale’s Rivals in the London Furniture Trade. This is a... Continue reading→

In the afternoon we proceeded to Rokeby, a quintessential neo-Palladian house built by an amateur architect for himself.  In order to understand the arrangement of the house we gathered in front of the south façade where Sally Davies, the current administrator of the house, introduced the physical architecture and the personalities, Sir Thomas Robinson, J.... Continue reading→

Seen from the short approach road, Raby is a formidable sight, a grey stone medieval fortress rising from green parkland. But the view is deceptive, because it never was a castle in the true sense of the word. Rather, it was a very substantial defensible house, built in the 14th century by the Nevill family... Continue reading→

Our three day visit to Warwickshire and Oxfordshire was organised by Tony Mills and James Lomax and was based at the comfortable Charingworth Manor Hotel near Chipping Campden.Ragley has a long history of alternating activity and atrophy. The Robert Hooke house of the 1680s was never completed as planned, was continued by the elderly James... Continue reading→

We were welcomed in the forecourt of Sizergh Castle by the House Steward who gave us an excellent history of the Strickland family who have lived at Sizergh since at least the thirteenth century. He explained that the castle had begun as a pele tower, was enlarged with three new wings in the 1560s and... Continue reading→