Prospect Cottage is a Victorian Fisherman’s hut which is most well known for being the final home of director and artist Derek Jarman until his death in 1994. The timber walls are weatherproofed with tar and the outer wall has lines from the poem “The Sun Rising” by John Donne. The 1990 film The Garden was filmed here.
Sculptures and hardy weather plants surround the cottage and Jarman wrote a book about it called Derek Jarman’s Garden with photography by Howard Sooley. When Jarman passed the cottage passed to his partner Keith Collins but was put up for sale in 2018 when Collins passed. Creative Folkestone are the custodians of the cottage after funding from Art Fund.
All photographs from 23 September 2023.
Jarman’s grave at Old Romney’s St. Clement Church. I have a page for the church here.
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