Wilton Legends returns to the Earl of Pembroke’s Palladian seat near Salisbury from 18 to 20 June 2027, with the auction, the stages and the house’s own collection.
Wilton was a ninth-century abbey before the Dissolution turned it into a private house, and it has been the seat of the Earls of Pembroke for more than four hundred years. The fourth Earl brought in Inigo Jones to rebuild it in the early seventeenth century, and the state rooms that came out of the commission are among the first Palladian interiors built in England. The pictures hung in them run to van Dyck, Rembrandt and Holbein, in a house still lived in rather than curated.
William Herbert, the eighteenth Earl, is a collector and an experienced racing driver, and under him the park has become one of the fixed points of the British motoring year. The first Concours des Légendes ran there over three days in June 2026, putting seventy-five cars on the lawns with more than sixty speakers across its stages: the cars are the occasion and the people who made them are the programme. It comes back in 2027 under a shortened name.
Wilton Legends runs from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 June 2027 across the parkland below the house. The auction returns with it, alongside the Legends, Pioneers and Insiders stages, a section given to coachbuilding and the other craft trades, an artist’s pavilion, a bookshop with author signings and a supercar drive-in. The Earl’s own cars come out for it, which is a weekend only this house can put on its own lawn.