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Kelmscott Manor
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Sophie
March 31, 2022
The home of William Morris, beautiful house close to the River Thames at Lechlade - full of wonderful design and art
Tim
March 8, 2022
A perfect Elizabethan house containing furniture and arts and crafts associated with William Morris, the great 19th century designer, artist, poet and social reformer. Morris was there in the 1870s. (1 hr by car)
Karen
June 1, 2021
27 miles/43 km/50 mins drive away. Re-opened in March 2022 after 2 years of refurbishment. The very interesting country home of William Morris and one of our favourite sites to visit.
Will
August 14, 2019
Stunning Manor house, former home to the Arts & Crafts movement's William Morris
Trish
April 12, 2022
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. It is situated close to the River Thames Described as a ‘Heaven on Earth’ by William Morris, he loved the Manor house and adjoining farm buildings as a work of true craftmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the surrounding countryside. William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement.
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. It is situated close to the River Thames Described as a…
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