Bristol City Council places Chatterton’s House, built in 1749, to Leasehold Tender

as Cafe / Restaurant:

 

“Bristol has an extraordinarily rich literary history, and Thomas Chatterton is at its centre. He was locally celebrated in his day, and after his death inspired one of the major literary debates of the eighteenth century. He was a significant influence on later writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from Oscar Wilde to contemporary novelists such as Peter Ackroyd. There is no grave to commemorate Thomas Chatterton, but we do have the house in which he was born. It should be a fitting memorial to a celebrated poet.”

 

   Prof. Nick Groom, Co-Founder in 2002 ‘The Thomas Chatterton Society’

 

 

“Bristol City Council has done an excellent job in the preservation and renovation of Chatterton’s House and we look forward with excitement to the successful long-term use of the birthplace of “Bristol’s Shakespeare”.”

 

   Michael Doble, Chairman ‘The Thomas Chatterton Society’