Burghley House

	Burghley House

Tour of the House

The Porcelain

Burghley houses the earliest inventoried collection of Japanese ceramics in the West. There are also many fine and rare examples of European porcelain and earthenware. Works of art and marble sculptures bought in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries are to be seen throughout the State rooms.

The Kitchen

Would 260 copper utensils from the late Georgian and early Victorian periods lead you to imagine extravagant meals and extensive entertaining? The skulls of turtles used to make turtle soup and an enormous painting of a Butchered Ox by Frans Snyders are just part of the fascinating contents of the Old Kitchen.
It was not until 1956 that Burghley House was connected to mains electricity; until then it was lit and heated solely by gas and open fires. In the Hog's Hall there are numerous bells which would have summoned the servants who were standing by awaiting their master's instructions.

Ante Chapel

Burghley House has a Chapel where the family and their guests attended prayers. In the ante-Chapel where the household staff gathered for prayers, hangs Francesco Bassano's painting of "The Agony in the Garden".
The plasterwork ceilings in both the ante-Chapel and Chapel were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in the late 18th Century.

The Billiard Room

Many interesting family portraits are inset into the Norwegian oak panelling of this room. The frame of the billiard table is made of oak taken from the wreck of the battleship "Royal George" which sank in 1782 and was raised in 1841.
This picture, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, portrays Henry, 10th Earl and 1st Marquess of Exeter, his wife Sarah and their daughter Sophia.

		The Porcelain
		Burghley houses the earliest inventoried collection of Japanese ceramics in the West. There are also many fine and rare examples of European porcelain and earthenware. Works of art and marble sculptures bought in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries are to be seen throughout the State rooms.

	The Kitchen
	Would 260 copper utensils from the late Georgian and early Victorian periods lead you to imagine extravagant meals and extensive entertaining? The skulls of turtles used to make turtle soup and an enormous painting of a Butchered Ox by Frans Snyders are just part of the fascinating contents of the Old Kitchen. It was not until 1956 that Burghley House was connected to mains electricity; until then it was lit and heated solely by gas and open fires. In the Hog's Hall there are numerous bells which would have summoned the servants who were standing by awaiting their master's instructions.

	Ante Chapel
		Burghley House has a Chapel where the family and their guests attended prayers. In the ante-Chapel where the household staff gathered for prayers, hangs Francesco Bassano's painting of "The Agony in the Garden". The plasterwork ceilings in both the ante-Chapel and Chapel were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in the late 18th Century.

	The Billiard Room
	Many interesting family portraits are inset into the Norwegian oak panelling of this room. The frame of the billiard table is made of oak taken from the wreck of the battleship "Royal George" which sank in 1782 and was raised in 1841. This picture, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, portrays Henry, 10th Earl and 1st Marquess of Exeter, his wife Sarah and their daughter Sophia.