Your committee has organised, with considerable negoatiating skills, a visit, by coach, to the historic house of Glynde Place, near Lewes.

Glynde Place is an Elizabethan Manor House at Glynde in East Sussex, England. Situated in the South Downs National Park, it is the family home of the Viscounts Hampden, whose forebears built the house in 1569. It is a Grade I listed building. The adjacent church was built in the eighteenth century.

In 1883 the Brand family estate consisted of 8,846 acres (35.80 km2) in Sussex (inherited through the families of Morley and Trevor, and valued at £8,121 a year), 6,658 in Hertfordshire, 3,600 in Essex, 2,081 in county Cambridge, and 978 in Suffolk. (Total 22,163 acres (89.69 km2) worth £24,753 a year).

From 2008 - 2013, the house was subject to a major renovation, organised by the 7th Viscount Hampden, and funded by the sale of one of the estate's paintings.

The house and gardens, the latter being Grade II* listed are open to the public for tours.

The price for this visit will be £40 per person, including the coach, and a guided tour around the house. For resertvations, you can email our organiser, Mrs C. Farrands, on secretary.henfield@theartssociety.org, or complete the booking form below, and email it to that address.