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inspired by knole project

The Knole Project team 2018-2019

Knole has been home to the Sackville-West family for more than 400 years. Since 1946, the National Trust has looked after the property within a 1000-acre deer park. The Knole Collection, with its internationally important survivals of Royal Stuart furniture, has been the focus of a lengthy conservation project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, from 2013 to 2019. With conservation excellence at its heart, the Inspired by Knole Project has been served by scores of professionals: conservators, curators, archaeologists, contractors and specialists from all over the country.

This Knolestories website offers excerpts from oral history interviews with these professionals: people who are now intrinsically connected to Knole through having worked on its exteriors and interiors and conserved its paintings, textiles, upholstery, picture frames and wall paintings for more than 5 years, the longest such project within the Trust.

Have a listen to Hannah Kay,  Frances Parton and Jan Cutajar among many others.

Find out more about Knole and its owners over six centuries.

  • Acquiring Gainsborough's portrait of the marquis de Champcenetz

    Behind the scenes of a thrilling 2016 auction
  • Barbara Taylor

    Learning Officer
  • Christine Sitwell

    Adviser, National Trust, Painting Conservation
  • David Cattell

    Project Architect, Inspired by Knole Project, 2013-2019
  • Emma Slocombe

    Inspired by Knole Project Curator, 2007-2017
  • Frances Parton

    Project Curator, Knole, 2017-2019
  • Hannah Kay

    General Manager, Knole, from 2015
  • Helen Fawbert

    House and Collections Manager, Knole, 2006-2018
  • Ian Tyers

    Dendrochronologist
  • Introducing this website

    updated December 2020
  • James Finlay

    Adviser, National Trust, Historic Interior Decoration
  • James P Wright

    Buildings Archaeologist and mediaeval specialist, on ritual protection marks at Knole
  • Jonathan Sargant

    Forging links with the wider community
  • Martha Infray

    Project Conservator, 2015-2018
  • Matthew Champion

    Archaeologist, medieval graffiti expert
  • Meet the team

    Knole's Oral History volunteers have created an archive of more than 250 interviews
  • Nathalie Cohen

    Archaeologist, Knole; National Trust, London and South East
  • Richard Hill

    Senior Project Manager, Inspired by Knole Project
  • Robert Sackville-West

    Lord Sackville, speaking about the Inspired by Knole Project (2013-2019)
  • Siobhan Barratt

    Knole's former Project Conservator, then Knole Conservation Studio Manager, 2015-2017
  • Sophie Reddington

    Paintings conservator, speaking about her treatment of one of Knole's largest landscape paintings
  • Tim Martin

    Metalwork conservator
  • Victoria Phillips

    Fund-raising Manager, Inspired by Knole Project, 2013-2019
  • Yannick Chastang

    Specialist conservator, Boulle furniture
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  • 2020s (2 interviews)
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