HYLAND
s it any surprise painter Alexander Creswell inhabits an
aerie? When Hyland editor Kyle Marshall returned from England
with a fine collection of photographs of the Creswell residence,
Copse Hill in the Downs, Surrey, I was enchanted to see that
the Arts & Crafts house, perched on a steep escarpment and
designed by architect and social reformer Christopher Hatton
Turnor (1873-1940), consists of an impossibly elongated
single gabled roof, 76 feet wide. Immediately I longed to peer
into the rooms lodged under those broad eaves. Kyle's pho-
tographs provide an intriguing, sometimes intimate glimpse
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