Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire, is a house that was beloved of William Morris, the poet, designer and founding father of the conservation movement. Today it's a property of the Society of Antiquaries of ...

Morris, a towering figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, was a pioneering designer, author, architectural conservationist and social reformer, who rented Kelmscott Manor for 25 years until his ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. STATELY home Kelmscott Manor has been named as one of the top 10 places telling the history of England’s art, architecture and sculpture.

Past visitors to Kelmscott Manor, the silvery stone house in an Oxfordshire village which the English designer and political firebrand William Morris described as “heaven on earth”, found his ...

Inside Kelmscott Manor, William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’ in the Cotswolds Jeremy Musson May 15, 2022 Fig 1: The east front of the manor. The older part is of about 1600, to the right 1660s.