Petworth House in the parish of
Petworth,
West Sussex,
England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed
country house, rebuilt in 1688 by
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect
Anthony Salvin. It contains intricate wood-carvings by
Grinling Gibbons (d.1721). It is the
manor house of the
manor of Petworth. For centuries it was the southern home for the
Percy family, Earls of Northumberland. Petworth is famous for its extensive art collection made by
George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), containing many works by his friend
Turner. It also has an expansive
deer park, landscaped by
Capability Brown, which contains the largest herd of
fallow deer in England.