Mottisfont Abbey, Mottisfont, Hampshire

A priory of Austin Canons was founded at Mottisfont in 1201. When the priory was dissolved in 1536, the lands at Mottisfont were given to William, first Lord Sandys, who built a home from the priory buildings. In the early 18th century the Tudor house was altered to its present form and the park planted. It was purchased in 1934 by Gilbert Russell, a great-grandson of the sixth Duke of Bedford. Russell and his wife Maud, who was a patron of the arts, renovated the house, added a wing, and made major alterations to the garden for which they commissioned the garden designers Norah Lindsay and Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Historic England Archive NMR_27225_34.