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Goodwood, West Sussex: unexecuted designs for a new house and a chimneypiece for the drawing room for the 3rd Duke of Richmond, 1763-65 (5)

1763-65
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735-1806), succeeded his father, the 2nd Duke, in 1750. He was in the army from the age of eighteen, attaining the rank of Field Marshal in 1795; he was an active Rockinghamite member of the House of Lords; elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1756; served briefly as a Lord of the Bedchamber in 1760; was Lord Lieutenant of Sussex from 1763; a member of the Society of Dilettanti from 1765; Ambassador to Paris in 1765-66; Knight of the Garter from 1782; and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries from 1793. In 1757 he married Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ailesbury.

A small brick house with stone dressing was built at Goodwood in 1720 for the 2nd Duke. A south wing was added, probably by Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769) in c1750, and this was enlarged by Sir William Chambers (1722-96) in 1757-60 (Chambers also built the stables and dower house). The whole was balanced by the addition of a north wing by James Wyatt (1746-1813) in the 1790s. Wyatt’s work was halted by the death of the 3rd Duke in 1806, and is thought to have been completed by John Nash (1752-1835). Part of Wyatt’s wing was demolished in the 1960s owing to dry rot. In 1724, presumably as a result of the gradual evolution of the house, Colen Campbell (1676-1729) made an unexecuted design for an entirely new house (included in the third volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, 1725). This was later followed in the 1760s by Adam’s designs for a new house at Goodwood, also unexecuted.

Goodwood remains in the possession of the Lennox family, being the home of the Earl and Countess of March. The house is open to the public.

Literature:
C. Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus III, 1725, pls 51-54; A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume I, pp. 45-46, Volume II, Index p. 15; I. Nairn, and N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Sussex, 1965, pp. 227-28; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume II, pp. 80, 126

Frances Sands, 2011
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