Garsington Manor | |
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Type | House |
Location | Garsington, Oxfordshire OX44 9DH |
Coordinates | 51°42′48″N 1°09′31″W / 51.7133°N 1.1587°W |
Built | 17th century, with later alterations |
Architectural style(s) | Vernacular |
Governing body | Privately owned |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Manor House, Garsington |
Designated | 18 July 1963 |
Reference no. | 1047686 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Gatepiers, walls, gates and railings to forecourt of manor house |
Designated | 25 October 1984 |
Reference no. | 1181670 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Pool, summer house and statuary 60M south of manor house |
Designated | 25 October 1984 |
Reference no. | 1047689 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Stables 30M northeast of manor house |
Designated | 25 October 1984 |
Reference no. | 1047688 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Former bakehouse and attached outbuilding 10M northwest of manor house |
Designated | 25 October 1984 |
Reference no. | 1047687 |
Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a country house, dating from the 17th century. Its fame derives principally from its owner in the early 20th century, the "legendary Ottoline Morrell, who held court from 1915 to 1924".[1]
Members of the Bloomsbury Group, the aristocratic Ottoline, and her wealthy husband Philip, were friends with an array of artists, writers and intellectuals, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf ,Siegfried Sassoon, Stanley and Gilbert Spencer being among the visitors to their house. The manor was later owned by Leonard Ingrams and from 1989 to 2010 was the setting for an annual summer opera season, the Garsington Opera, which relocated to Wormsley Park in 2011. Garsington is a Grade II* listed building.