Field Place, Warnham

{{Short description|Building in West Sussex, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date= August 2023}} {{Use British English|date= August 2023}} [[File:Field Place (geograph 3807811).jpg|thumb|Field Place in 1961]] '''Field Place''' is a [[Grade I listed]] house in [[Warnham]], [[West Sussex]], England.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1026916|desc=Field Place|access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> It is the birthplace of the poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], born there in 1792.

The house dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries.<ref name="romantic-circles.org">{{cite web |title=Field Place |url=https://romantic-circles.org/reference/misc/shelleysites/england/Fieldplace/Fieldplace.html |website=romantic-circles.org |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref> It has been restored to the state it was in when Shelley lived there.<ref name="romantic-circles.org"/>

Field Place was built in about 1353 by Richard Felde, and this part is now the east wing.<ref name="Parks & Gardens">{{cite web |title=Field Place |url=https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/field-place |website=Parksandgardens.org |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref> It was later owned by the Mychel family who had added the south wing by 1525.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/> In 1729, it was bought by Edward Shelley.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/> On his death, the house was inherited by his nephew Sir [[Timothy Shelley]] (1753–1844), and the poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (1792–1822) was his eldest son.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/> The farm buildings and much of the land is now owned separately.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/> Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his youth at Field Place, but never lived there as an adult.<ref name="Warnham Society">{{cite web |title=The Early History of Warnham |url=http://www.warnhamsociety.org.uk/History/TheEarlyHistoryOfWarnham.pdf |website=warnhamsociety.org |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref> His son [[Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet]] (1819–1889) inherited the property.<ref name="Warnham Society"/>

G N Charrington, who had been a tenant, acquired the property in 1929, and restored the gardens by 1949.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/> In 1982, Kenneth Pritchard Jones bought the house and restored it.<ref name="Parks & Gardens"/>

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[[Category:Grade I listed houses]] [[Category:Grade I listed buildings in West Sussex]] [[Category:Houses in West Sussex]] [[Category:Arun District]]