Where Time STANDS STILL
Jul 17, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS AMBRA EDWARDS
PHOTOGRAPHS
MIMI CONNOLLY
IT IS FIVE YEARS SINCE I WAS LAST AT COTHAY Manor. Things have changed. And nothing has changed. Five years is a twinkling of an eye in the life of this old house, which has slumbered in its Somerset dell for 500 years.
To see the medieval gate tower reflected in the glassy lake and the wisterias grown to prodigious girth along the venerable walls, to push open a centuries-old door to enter a courtyard of green, cloistered calm, is to step out of the 21st century into the timeless world of
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