Garsington Manor

Garsington Manor
TypeHouse
LocationGarsington, Oxfordshire OX44 9DH
Coordinates51°42′48″N 1°09′31″W / 51.7133°N 1.1587°W / 51.7133; -1.1587
Built17th century, with later alterations
Architectural style(s)Vernacular
Governing bodyPrivately owned
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameManor House, Garsington
Designated18 July 1963
Reference no.1047686
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGatepiers, walls, gates and railings to forecourt of manor house
Designated25 October 1984
Reference no.1181670
Listed Building – Grade II
Official namePool, summer house and statuary 60M south of manor house
Designated25 October 1984
Reference no.1047689
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameStables 30M northeast of manor house
Designated25 October 1984
Reference no.1047688
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameFormer bakehouse and attached outbuilding 10M northwest of manor house
Designated25 October 1984
Reference no.1047687
Garsington Manor is located in Oxfordshire
Garsington Manor
Location of Garsington Manor in Oxfordshire

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.

  1. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner 2002, pp. 611–612.