Historic sites

Wightwick Manor

United Kingdom Wolverhampton Wolverhampton

Wightwick Manor
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Victorian house built in the 1880s for a paint manufacturer, filled with one of the best collections of Arts and Crafts design and Pre-Raphaelite art: wallpaper and textiles by William Morris, tiles by William De Morgan and paintings by Rossetti and Burne-Jones.


The gardens were laid out by Thomas Mawson.

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