Garsington Manor

Garsington Manor Garsington in, near Oxford, UK, is a mansion in the Tudor style; it is well known as the former country home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, who received there among other members of the Bloomsbury Group. Since 1989, found there every summer opera performances under the name Garsington Opera instead, which was hosting the family of bankers Leonard Ingrams ( 1941-2005 ). Since 2011 are performances in Wormsley Park, a mansion of Mark Getty, instead.

History of the House

The mansion was built on the site, which belonged to the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and earlier was called " Chaucer ". Garsington Manor was built by William Wickham in the 17th century. Lady Ottoline and her husband, Philip Morrell, bought it in 1915, could restore the building in need of repair, and put a landscape garden in Italian style. The ground floor is limited by the Irish yews at the corners of 24 square beds; the Italian garden has a large ornamental pond, which is surrounded by yew hedges and statues. In addition, there is a natural garden with avenues of trees, shrubs and a fountain in a pond.

Garsington was a meeting place for friends Morrell, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, DH Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and Mark Gertler. In 1916 they invited a pacifist, including a member of the Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, who lived there as a conscientious objector during the First World War and worked to escape persecution. Aldous Huxley spent some time there as he wrote Crome Yellow 1921 ( A company in the country).

The Morrell left the house in 1928; The buyer was Dr Heaton, who later sold it to Sir John and Lady Wheeler Bennett. Leonard and Rosalind Ingrams bought the house in 1982.