Sutton Place, 3 miles NE of Guildford in Surrey is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house built c.1525 by Sir Richard Weston(d.1541), courtier of Henry VIII. It is of great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture. In modern times the estate has had a series of super-rich owners, a trend started by J. Paul Getty, then the world's richest private citizen, who chose to spend the last 17 years of his life there. Its current owner is the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.

Comments
Sign in or get an account to comment.