5137 x 3425 px | 43,5 x 29 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2008
Ubicazione:
Chawton Hampshire UK
Altre informazioni:
1)Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 1.6 miles (2.5km) southwest of Alton, just south of the A31 which runs between Farnham and Winchester. The village is famous as the home of Jane Austen for the last eight years of her life. The nearest railway station is 1.7 miles (2.7km) northeast of the village, at Alton. In 2000, Chawton had a population of around 380. It is within the census area of Downland which has 2, 149 people. 2)Chawton House, the 400 year old grade ll* listed Elizabethan manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother and 275 acres (1.11 km2) of land, has been restored as part of a major international project to establish the new Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600–1830. It houses a collection of over 9, 000 volumes, together with some related manuscripts. Visitors can see the relationship between the library, the house, the estate and a working farm of the 18th and early 19th centuries 3) St Nicholas Church.. Old masonry only in the chancel. Flint, with a big SW tower. Three cross-gables to the N. The exterior looks 1850 rather than 1870. It stands idyllically beside the drive leading up to Chawton House, about half a mile from the village. Interior. The church consist of nave, chancel, north aisle and sanctuary. The church being almost completely rebuilt after a fire in 1871, only the chancel would be recognisable to Jane Austen, along with some of the memorials on the walls and the large monument in the chancel: Good standing marble monument. Semi-reclining figure in armour. Big back display with trophies. The whole remarkably Dutch ( N.Pevsner 1967).The churchyard contains the graves of Jane Austen's mother and sister.
