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SUTTON PLACE, SURREY 



PERFECT in design and proportion, Sutton 

 A Place, near Guildford, remains a glorious 

 memento of past genius and artistic power. The 

 usual additions and alterations which most houses 

 suffer from time to time this beautiful old house 

 has fortunately escaped, and stands much the same 

 now as it did in the days of its keen, shrewd creator, 

 Sir Richard Weston a man to be remembered as 

 having built Sutton Place and kept the favour of 

 Henry VIII. for thirty-two years. 



There is a unique fascination about any old 

 place which has been left alone, only tended and 

 cared for but not changed by the taste of each 

 fleeting generation. True to the date of the House, 

 the Gardens at Sutton Place are entirely enclosed. 



Great trees and clipped Yews stand near the 

 House, but no sign of a flower can be seen from 

 any window, nothing to break in upon the perfect 

 harmony of the beautiful old building, so exquisite 



