The Tudor Garden - 16th Century
The Tudor Garden - 16th Century
The Tudor Garden - 16th Century
Significant Features:
Ideas imported from Italy via France and Holland. This garden is an extension to the Manor House and was to human scale.
The house is set up off the ground and has a terrace on the garden side. The house has a forecourt with associated buildings. To the sides and the front are orchards, flower garden. Kitchen garden is to the rear of the house.
Summer houses connected to wide terraces provide places to sit with a view.
Openings in the wall created visual link to the landscape beyond. Clipping of Plants to shapes was also common.
Tall forest trees like oaks, ashes, and elms sheltered the orchard.
Examples of the French Style and the Dutch Style respectively, from where the ideas of the Tudor Gardens are derived
serpentine curves.
William Kent s naturalistic style of design was his major contribution to landscape
design . Inspired by the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Salvador Rosa and Nicolas Poussin, he proclaimed Nature abhors straight lines. He believed that the validity of the design is due to two important factors: Its moral integrity and Its classical derivations. The taste for the irregular and natural was thus considered highly moral.
Sequence of Experience
A path was laid out around the shore of the lake connecting a series of events, and
garden was best experienced by following the route in the prescribed direction.
The gardens are arranged according to the rules of a landscape painting.
As one walked, new vistas and views were revealed and the visitor was brought
obliquely to buildings and places seen earlier. At one point the path leads underground into a cool grotto (cave) with a mosscovered statue, ferns and the sound of running water it is a conscious change in environment to evoke physiologically, as well as intellectually, images of a legendary under water kingdom.