Photograph of the vicarage garden at Hursley
Taken about 1870
Hursley lies about three miles south-west of Winchester. Originally built as a private house by the Heathcote family in 1824, the flint and brick vicarage in Gothic cottage style was transferred to the church in 1842.
In the mid-nineteenth century it was occupied by the Reverend John Keble who was vicar of Hursley from 1835 until his death in 1866. Keble was a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, which sought to reassert the authority of the Anglican Church.
In this photograph three ladies relax in the spacious garden. A small thatched summerhouse can just be seen beneath the trees.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album of his work.
