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‘Versailles Of The North’ Garden To Be Restored |
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WEST YORK, U.K.- Scientists from Leeds University are currently conducting tests using ground-penetrating radar to determine whether it will be possible to restore a complex 17th century water garden at Bramham Park, near Wetherby, West York, once described as the Versailles of the North. The garden was the inspiration of Robert Benson, first Lord Bingley, who commissioned designs in 1698 after visiting water gardens in 1698. It is believed the gardens only worked briefly before falling into disrepair. Inspiration for the design of the garden at Bramham was French and formal, but the manner in which it was adapted to the natural landscape is relaxed and entirely English. It is still completely original, perhaps the only large-scale formal garden to survive virtually unchanged from the early eighteenth century.
Bramham is a garden of walks and vistas, architectural features and reflecting water. Its main axis runs from north to south across the house front, not centred squarely on the house in the French manner. As you walk around the garden, you experience a growing feeling of anticipation - what will I see around the next corner?
Leaving the house, the elegant double flight of steps from the Long Gallery is a copy of one at Fontainebleau. Ahead is the rose garden, and at the northern end of the walk is the Chapel, originally an orangery built in the 1750s.
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Today's News
July 20, 2025
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Ming Fay, Yu-Wen Wu, and Lee Mingwei at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Kunsthaus Zürich presents Wu Tsang - 'La montaña invertida'
Riga's Art Museum unveils early history in "The New Temple of Art" centennial show
Monster Chetwynd transforms Tate Modern's Turbine Hall into immersive "magic flute" adventure
Zentrum Paul Klee unveils major retrospective: Rose Wylie's "Flick and Float"
Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and National Gallery Singapore present children's exhibition When Art Meets Nature
Fridericianum in Kassel presents FORREST BESS publication
Call for applications: Curators Workshop on the occasion of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kunsthaus Graz presents Milica Tomić: On Love Afterwards
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents Mehtap Baydu and Egemen Demirci
Artists on the meaning of "home" at the Van Abbemuseum
Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Flowers Gallery exhibits works by Chen Zhe, Bianca Raffaella, and AidaTomescu
MACRO hosts Festival of Foreign Academies, celebrating Rome's global artistic pulse
Iconic "Great Prophet" returns to Reina Sofía garden, welcoming visitors anew
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