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Landscape record TQ 63 NW 13 - Bayham Abbey Gardens
Summary
Early C19 landscape park with later C19 formal gardens. A late C19 garden of formal terraces and in formal pleasure grounds laid out around a late C19 house, set within a wooded park created in the early C19 for which Humphry Repton prepared proposals in a Red Book of 1800 and in which stand the ruins of the former monastic house of Bayham Abbey.
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TQ 6407 3708 (3107m by 2327m) GCE |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TQ63NW |
| County | KENT |
| District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
| Civil Parish | LAMBERHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (18)
- LODGE (Lodge, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CASCADE (CASCADE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FORMAL GARDEN (FORMAL GARDEN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GARDEN WALL (GARDEN WALL, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- HEDGE MAZE (HEDGE MAZE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ORNAMENTAL LAKE (ORNAMENTAL LAKE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ORNAMENTAL POND (ORNAMENTAL POND, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TERRACE (Ornamental Terrace, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- LANDSCAPE PARK (LANDSCAPE PARK, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TREE AVENUE (TREE AVENUE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WEIR (WEIR, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- FISHPOND (FISH POND, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- LANDSCAPE PARK (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
- MANAGED WOODLAND (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
- WALLED GARDEN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
- LAKE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
- GARDEN TERRACE (Post Medieval - 1870 AD to 1872 AD)
- WATER GARDEN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
Full Description
English Heritage, 2013, Bayham Old Abbey Conservation Management Plan, Second Draft (Unpublished document). SKE29565.
<1> English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest, Part 24 Kent(May 1987) (OS Card Reference). SKE41619.
<2> Country Life (1 Oct 1943) 596-599 (OS Card Reference). SKE39315.
<3> Country Life (8 Oct 1943) 640-643 (OS Card Reference). SKE39368.
<4> Rigold S E, Coad J(1985)Bayham Abbey (guidebook) (OS Card Reference). SKE49261.
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SKE29565 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2013. Bayham Old Abbey Conservation Management Plan, Second Draft.
- <1> SKE41619 OS Card Reference: English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest, Part 24 Kent(May 1987).
- <2> SKE39315 OS Card Reference: Country Life (1 Oct 1943) 596-599.
- <3> SKE39368 OS Card Reference: Country Life (8 Oct 1943) 640-643.
- <4> SKE49261 OS Card Reference: Rigold S E, Coad J(1985)Bayham Abbey (guidebook).
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Record last edited
Mar 19 2024 2:46PM