Talk:Monkton House, West Dean

Very rough and ready

This is rather rough, but I don’t have time for more now. Any contributions to its improvement grateful received. KJP1 (talk) 09:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BorgQueen talk 10:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Salvador Dalí planned to cover the walls of Edward James' dining room with fur and have them expand and contract, in imitation of the stomach of a sick dog? Source: Turner, Christopher (1 May 2021). "The Surreal life of Edward James". Apollo. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
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Created by KJP1 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:38, 15 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Monkton House, West Dean; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• No, unfortunately that won’t work, as the planned dining room was at James’ London house, not at Monkton. I now think that’s the fatal flaw in my nomination, the hook is only parenthetically connected to the article. A pity, as I thought the hook rather nice. Could somebody better versed than I in the mysteries of DYK close this one. KJP1 (talk) 19:49, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
• No worries. I shall place this mark here and that'll initiate the process of the nomination to go away. Schwede66 01:21, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Primary topic

We currently have two articles on two Monkton Houses, this one, Monkton House, West Dean, and Monkton House. Per Wikipedia:PRIMARYTOPIC, my view is that this house is the more notable. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens and redesigned by Christopher Malthouse and Hugh Casson. Its owner was Edward James. The contributions by Salvador Dalí made it unique, as "the only complete Surrealist house ever created in Britain" with a collection of Surrealist art and furniture which was "one of the largest and most important in the world". By contrast, the Wiltshire Monkton is a 16th century house with seemingly little notable history. I acknowledge that it is a Grade II* listed building, one among some 21,000 such buildings, as opposed to the Sussex Monkton's Grade II, but beyond that, there seems little to suggest greater notability for the Wiltshire site.

I would therefore suggest that the this article be accorded the primary status, and that the Wiltshire house be moved to [[Monkton House, Broughton Gifford]]. I would appreciate other views. KJP1 (talk) 19:53, 18 October 2023 (UTC)