Category: News

Robert Hardman | Daily Mail | 5 October 2023 Clandon House has suddenly become a fresh battlefield in a struggle for the very soul of the National Trust. On one side is the management, with plans to spend tens of millions installing suspended walkways and a viewing platform to reinterpret the charred remains. On the […]

The Daily Telegraph | 25 September 2023 SIR – Constance Watson (Comment, September 23) writes eloquently in condemnation of the National Trust’s joyless plans for Clandon Park in Surrey. As the person who will propose the Restore Trust motion on Clandon at the forthcoming National Trust AGM, I’d like to comment further. After dropping its […]

Ben Ellery, Ali Mitib | The Times | 23 September 2023 When Clandon Park House was built more than 200 years ago, it was an extraordinary project that resulted in what is considered by many to be an architectural masterpiece. Now, after a fire ripped through its stunning marble hall and magnificent plasterwork ceilings in […]

It is the heritage body’s duty to preserve and restore the Palladian mansion.But its plans will leave it in ruins The Daily Telegraph | 23 September 2023 As the National Trust’s AGM approaches, the organisation has questions to answer about the future of Clandon Park, the 18th-century Palladian mansion ravaged by fire in 2015. At […]

Country Life | 20 September 2023 LUCY DENTON’S article on the vexed question of rebuilding or reinstating historic buildings after fires is full of contentious statements that deserve to be challenged (‘ Cinders, you shall go to the wrecking ball’ September 6). SPAB and the modernists have returned to the fray over Clandon in Surrey. […]

Cornelia van der Poll | The Telegraph | 18 August 2023 Saving face: detail from the fireplace of the Marble Hall at Clandon Park, Surrey CREDIT: national trust/alamy SIR – In making the case against rebuilding the Crooked House pub, Clive Aslet (Comment, August 16) says that he has “sympathy” with the National Trust’s decision not […]