Nostell Priory
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, near to the village of Crofton on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733 and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. The Priory and its contents were given to the National Trust in 1953 by the trustees of the estate and Rowland Winn, 3rd Baron St Oswald.
The monastic buildings were converted into a house after the Dissolution. In 1650 the estate was acquired by the Winn family. Sir Rowland Winn, the 4th baronet, having returned from the Grand Tour in 1729, began to build the present house in c.1730. The plans for the house, based on Palladio’s Villa Mocenigo, were likely formulated by Colonel James-Moyser, and built, with alterations, by James Paine in 1735-50.
In the 1760s the 5th baronet commissioned Robert Adam to complete the interiors; the resulting Neo-classical decorations are among Adam's best. The decorative painting was carried out by Antonio Zucchi, the plasterwork by Joseph Rose the younger and the furniture by Thomas Chippendale.
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