Linden Groves at the Landscape Institute Awards in November, to publicise the Society’s CMP project
Bibliography of Conservation Management Plans looks set to be a big hit… Linden Groves is busy carrying out an English Heritage funded project for Society to produce a readily available reference list of Conservation Management Plans (CMPs) relating to historic landscapes in the UK, and where to access them. Good news, we now have well […]
Arthur Markham Nesfield Remembered
Arthur Markham Nesfield Remembered Dr Shirley Evans In my previous article I discussed the Nesfields’ involvement at Regent’s Park, London and drew attention to the work of Arthur Markham Nesfield (1841–74). Little has been written about this landscape designer’s contribution to the genre but from the 1860s, when he virtually took over the family landscape […]
The Tudor garden at Cressing Temple, Essex
The Tudor garden at Cressing Temple, Essex A Friends Group about to be formed David Andrews The great medieval barns at Cressing Temple have been dominant features of the landscape of this part of central Essex for 800 years. This was one of the most valuable manors of the Knights Templar, and later the Hospitallers […]
Brenda Colvin at Stowe
Brenda Colvin at Stowe Michael Bevington A garden at Stowe by the famous landscape architect Brenda Colvin, CBE (1897–1981), has been identified. According to Trish Gibson’s recent book, one of her first commissions was ‘Mr Roxburgh’s garden’. Stowe School opened on 11 May 1923 with J.F. Roxburgh as Headmaster. His living quarters adjoined the Gothic […]
‘The true taste of beauty’: Gardens in the Letters of Samuel Molyneux
‘The true taste of beauty’: Gardens in the Letters of Samuel Molyneux Paul Holden, FSA In October 1712 Samuel Molyneux (1689–1728) travelled to London from his home in Dublin to be enrolled as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Being the only child of the celebrated astronomer, philosopher and constitutional writer William Molyneux, (1656–98) and […]
Capability Brown Tercentenary, 1716 to 2016
Capability Brown Tercentenary, 1716 to 2016 Steffie Shields Planning for the 2016 Celebrations was launched at Ampthill Park on 13 June, hosted by Ampthill Council. Exciting momentum is building towards planning national events, portable travelling exhibitions and sharing more landscapes with a wider public and the younger generations. About 150 delegates attended from all the […]
The Kymin, a remarkable cultural landscape.
The Kymin, a remarkable cultural landscape. Min Wood Seven hundred feet above Monmouth are the Kymin Rocks. From here there are views over ten counties and once one could see far down the Wye Valley to the Wyndcliffe and Piercefield. In the eighteenth-century there were those, encouraged by Gilpin’s Observations, who searched for stations from […]
Combe Royal uncovered
Combe Royal uncovered John Clark Combe Royal is a Victorian house, listed Grade II, with a notable garden in a deep Devon combe, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, near Kingsbridge in the South Hams. The lower garden, which was largely planted with giant rhododendrons, still exists, but little remains of the elaborate Victorian […]
Studley Royal Study Day, 3 May 2012
Studley Royal Study Day, 3 May report by John Larder After an introduction by Val Hepworth, the Study Day got underway in the Visitor Centre auditorium with a rapid recital of the history of the estate by Mark Newman, Archaeological Consultant for Yorkshire & North East Region of the National Trust. George Aislabie first acquired […]