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Friday, November 22, 2024 |
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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
November 22, 2024
Longwood Gardens' sweeping reimagination of its central visitor experience opens to the public
Masterworks anchor Heritage's Dec. 6 European Art Auction
Ahlers & Ogletree announces results of Estates & Collections sale
2024 East Hampton House & Garden Tour: Explore five spectacular East Hampton properties
The Morgan Library & Museum presents Franz Kafka
David Altmejd unveils a body of new sculptures and drawings at Xavier Hufkens
Christie's The Classic Week totals $11,330,690
Mica: The Collection of Mica Ertegun Part I & 20th Century Evening sale total $486 million
Patek Philippe Gold Chronograph brings $137,500 to Lead Heritage's Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction above $3.3 million
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul exhibits paintings, drawings and collages, 1961-1968 by James Rosenquist
Discover the secrets of the Renaissance: Italian drawings at the Depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Mighty, indeed, as Heritage and Hasbro's once-in-a-lifetime Power Rangers auction realizes $3.3 million
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announces international design competition shortlist
'Enigmatic Glance' group show opens at GR Gallery
Kode Bergen Art Museum opens an exhibition of works by ceramic artist Heidi Bjørgan
Nieuwe Instituut completes six-year heritage programme 'Disclosing Architecture'
NGV breaks global record for the most Yayoi Kusama immersive environments ever assembled
Christie's announces highlights of the Magnificent Jewels live auction
10.03-carat yellow diamond, 12.25-carat Colombian emerald sparkle in Heritage's Holiday Jewelry Auction
Elite collection of space memorabilia, including Apollo 11-flown American flag, touches down at Heritage Auctions
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