Temple Newsam...an amazing house with amazing collections!
Temple Newsam is celebrated for its wonderful collections of fine and decorative arts, especially paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles and wallpapers.
The collection has been built up since 1923 when the estate was bought from the Hon Edward Wood (later the Earl of Halifax) by the city of Leeds and developed as a country house museum, to restore the house and its fine collections to its earlier glory.
Despite the sale of many of the furnishings in 1922, the basis of the contents of Temple Newsam today is still the family collection. This has been added to over the years and now makes up one of the finest publicly owned collections of English decorative art outside London.
In 1997 the collections were designated by the Museums and Galleries Commission as being of pre-eminent national importance.
For more information about the collections please click on the links below:
A Collections History is available as a downloadable Adobe .pdf document by clicking the download links on the right.