Syon Park is the perfect backdrop for filming and photoshoots. Offering Robert Adam interiors, the magnificent Great Conservatory and Capability Brown lakes and parkland.

Syon Park lies on the banks of the Thames, roughly ten miles upstream of London. Through prehistory the river would have undulated to create a mosaic of marshes, creeks and islands, and Syon House stands on one of those prehistoric islands. Built in the sixteenth century, on the site of the Medieval Syon Abbey, Syon House is now the spectacular London home of the Duke of Northumberland.

Inside the house, the Great Hall is reminiscent of a Roman Basilica, complete with Doric columns, decorative stucco work, and statues of Roman nobles gazing down from their pedestals. Every aspect of the State Dining Room with its ornate Corinthian columns and marble statues of Ceres and Bacchus representing food and drink, offers the experience and enjoyment of entertaining on a grand scale and the 136ft Long Gallery offers similar opulence, and history, in a different colour palette. Including a marble panel by Luc-Francois Breton of the Three Graces, the daughters of Zeus, in the Dining Room, and the 62 Corinthian pilasters, gilded and painted, along with classical trailing stucco mouldings, and false bookcase in the Long Gallery. The Green DrawingRoom, with the ornate Renaissance-style ceiling and superb scagliola fireplace, and the Private Dining Room with furniture dating from the 18^th century are both still used by the family today.

The 19^th century Great Conservatory is the jewel in Syon’s Crown, a building whose delicate structure is combined with a neo-classical elevation on a Palladian model. One of England’s first great conservatories, it is built of Bath Stone, cast & wrought iron and gunmetal.

There are 2 lakes and 100 acres of Capability Brown parkland, ranging from fine lawns to open meadows, grazed by cows during the summer, and a number of fine specimen trees.

For over 50 years, Syon House & Gardens and the Great Conservatory have featured in an array of film and television productions. Period dramas are of course a natural fit for Syon House, which has featured in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Emma, Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, and more recently Bridgerton and Napoleon. However, modern-day productions are a great fit too, as can be seen in Killing Eve, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Diplomat, and We Live in Time all of which shot at Syon House and the Great Conservatory. amongst others.

Syon House & Gardens also offers fantastic production facilities, including green room space, large crew base sites with easy access to the house and gardens, on-site support staff, out-of-hours access, and accommodation at the house itself, or the Hilton Hotel on site.

Also available for filming in Syon are the Hilton Hotel, featured in Ted Lasso, and Snakes and Ladders, used in an episode of Miranda.

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