Stoneywell is a National Trust property in Ulverscroft, a dispersed settlement near Coalville in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Stoneywell is the largest of a small group of cottages designed in th
Stoneywell, Leicestershire
Drawing of Stoneywell by Ernest Gimson, July 1898
Sidney Barnsley's oak dining table, with Ernest Gimson's ladder-back chairs
The entrance faces out away from the road, with no vehicular access.
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire an
Stoneywell
…a dispersed settlement near Coalville in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Stoneywell is the largest of a small group of cottages designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson. It was built in collaboration with Detmar Blow in 1899 for Ernest's brother Sydney Gimson as a summer residence, and along with…
William Morris's design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862
The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 in his Golden Type inspired by the 15th-century printer Nicolas Jenson. This chapter from The Stones of Venice was a sort of manifesto for the Arts and Crafts movement.
Pugin's house "The Grange" in Ramsgate, from 1843. Its simplified Gothic Revival style, adapted to domestic building, helped shape the architecture of the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris, a designer and thinker who was a key influence on the Arts and Crafts movement