Pool, Summer House And Statuary Approximately 60 Metres South Of Manor House

A formal pool, summer house, and nine statues dating to around 1920, created for Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell. The pool is a large, rectangular structure within a dressed limestone basin, featuring a central, rectangular, stone-paved island aligned with the garden (south) axis of the Manor House. The painted wooden summer house, known as The Temple, is located centrally on the east side and has a doorway flanked by small openings set between four simple pilasters, topped by a rustic entablature and triangular pediment. This summer house was brought from the Morrells' former country house at Peppard. Eight full-length standing stone figures are positioned on stone pedestals, set within recesses in a yew hedge around the sides of the pool. A further statue sits on the island. The statues, in clockwise order, depict: a male figure, girdled with a vine and holding a shield-shaped tablet (base inscribed "...VROR POETICUS "); a partly-draped female holding a bee-hive(?); a partly-draped female with a quiver; a partly-draped male (Vulcan) with a hammer and anvil, with one foot replaced; a partly-draped female with detached arms; a nude female holding a branch; a partly draped figure; and a figure on a square pedestal. The island features a reclining female figure on an oval pedestal decorated with festoons and a mask. The pool is the centerpiece of an elaborate Italian garden designed by the Morrells with the assistance of Philip Tylden. The site incorporates a previously existing medieval fishpond. Many artists and writers were frequent visitors during the Morrells' occupancy (1915-28), and some, conscientious objectors, were employed as workmen during the First World War.