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A tour of the Cotswolds would not be complete without a visit to Kelmscott Manor at the eastern end of the Cotswolds on the way to Oxford. William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the summer of 1871. Morris loved the house as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the village and the surrounding countryside. He considered it so natural in its setting as to be almost organic, it looked to him as if it had ‘grown up out of the soil’; and with ‘quaint garrets amongst great timbers of the roof where of old times the tillers and herdsmen slept’. Kelmscott Manor is owned and managed by the Society of Antiquaries. |
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Contact Details Kelmscott Lechlade Gloucestershire GL7 3HJ (Click on postcode to view map) Tel: 01367 252486 http://www.kelmscottmanor.co.uk |
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