点评:Notwithstanding having read a poor review ( a bit "camp") we found ourselves in the Cathedral Close and thought "why not?". It was three hours well spent. Entry is via little shop created from a garage, thence into the front garden with its sweeping gravel drive and up into the front hall, door opened as you approach it. The first room is a gallery displaying builders models of four of his five Morning Cloud sailing yachts together with information concerning his successes at sea, Other rooms contain his piano and other instruments, his dining room and of the rooms he used just his stuff & library remain; the others are exhibition spaces, one devoted to his military service following D Day. His extensive collection of 20thC and Japanese art is well displayed.
The garden is beautiful, stretching down to the Avon.
The curators and custodians know a lot, but at the end of the tour one wonders just how much more one has learned about him from visiting. There isn't a lot go him there. It was his only home, all previous residences came with the job(s). Despite enjoying entertaining ( and the list of guests is remarkable) he seems to have been a very private man.
But it's a beautiful house full of beautiful art in a lovely garden in a unique setting and more than worth the £10 entry.
翻译:尽管之前读过一篇差评(有点“敷衍”),我们还是来到了大教堂巷,心想“何乐而不为呢?”。这三个小时花得真值。入口是经过一个由车库改造的小商店,然后进入前花园,花园里有一条宽阔的碎石车道,再上去就是前厅,走近门就开着。第一个房间是一个画廊,展示了他五艘晨云号帆船中的四艘的建造模型,以及他在海上取得的成就。其他房间则有他的钢琴和其他乐器、餐厅,以及他使用过的房间,只剩下他的东西和图书馆;其他房间是展览空间,其中一个专门用于展示他在诺曼底登陆后的军事服役经历。他收藏的大量20世纪和日本艺术品都得到了很好的展示。
花园很美,一直延伸到埃文河。
策展人和管理员们都了解很多,但参观结束后,人们不禁会想,通过参观,究竟能对他了解更多多少。那里并没有太多关于他的信息。那是他唯一的家,之前的所有住所都伴随着工作。尽管他喜欢招待客人(而且宾客名单也很引人注目),但他似乎是一个非常注重隐私的人。
但这栋房子很漂亮,里面摆满了精美的艺术品,花园很漂亮,环境独特,10英镑的门票绝对物超所值。