DOI Heft:
No. 185 (August 1912)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, [1]: with illustrations, after designs by C. E. Mallows, F. R. I. B. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0208
A rchitectural Gardening
house and flagged garden walk, designed by c. e. mallows, f.r.i.b.a.
FROM A PEN DRAWING BY F. L. B. GRIGGS
reason and truth in design that thrived so well in
bygone years, principles which it is to be fervently
hoped will grow and thrive again in years to come
and produce the same or better results. Such
results however will never be reached until it is
clearly recognised that the garden is as much within
the province of the architect as the house itself.
The illustrations accompanying these notes
indicate an endeavour to revert to the English
tradition referred to above. The drawing of Dalham
Hall shows a detail of a portion of a complete
scheme for remodelling both the Hall itself and
the gardens. It was designed for the late Mr. Cecil
Rhodes. Little or no indications remained to
show what the original work was like—it was
probably destroyed in the days of landscape
gardening—and the new design of the gardens
was based accordingly on the remodelled plan
of the Hall. The old Hall itself was left
in its original state untouched, and a new wing
added on the east side.
The central axis of the
old part determined the
central feature of the new
formal garden, and a
balanced effect was ob-
tained on each side of it;
the principal reason for
this being that a very fine
old avenue, a portion of
the original design, re-
mains with its centre on
the same line at some
distance from the south
front, so that, standing in
the semicircular porch,
an effective vista is ob-
tained across the gardens
to the long perspective
of the avenue. The
Doric colonnade on the
right (looking towards the
Hall) is the eastern
boundary of the south
tennis-court. The east
wall (to the left of the
drawing) with the sheltered
seat, separates the garden
partly from the park and
partly from the entrance
courtyard.
The principal part of the
design for a house and
garden at Crowborough,
for Mary, Duchess of Sutherland, is illustrated by
the ground plan reproduced on page 183. This is
planned for a beautiful site on the southern slope
of a hill (overlooking the Ashdown Forest) which
is about 700 feet above sea-level. The remaining
portion of the scheme consists of two large lawns,
rose and water gardens with tennis-courts and tea-
houses adjoining, and connected by a colonnade
with two bowling-greens. The entrance courtyard
is on the centre line of a wide and long avenue
approach of chestnut trees. This is, of course, the
main approach drive to the house; there are two
others, one on each side of the principal drive, but
each much narrower than the central one. That
on the right (approaching the house) leads to the
stables, and that on the left leads to the kitchen
wing and is for tradesmen. These three roads,
which, placed together in this way, form an effective
entrance, meet in a semicircle at the junction
with the high road. Across the chord of the semi-
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house and flagged garden walk, designed by c. e. mallows, f.r.i.b.a.
FROM A PEN DRAWING BY F. L. B. GRIGGS
reason and truth in design that thrived so well in
bygone years, principles which it is to be fervently
hoped will grow and thrive again in years to come
and produce the same or better results. Such
results however will never be reached until it is
clearly recognised that the garden is as much within
the province of the architect as the house itself.
The illustrations accompanying these notes
indicate an endeavour to revert to the English
tradition referred to above. The drawing of Dalham
Hall shows a detail of a portion of a complete
scheme for remodelling both the Hall itself and
the gardens. It was designed for the late Mr. Cecil
Rhodes. Little or no indications remained to
show what the original work was like—it was
probably destroyed in the days of landscape
gardening—and the new design of the gardens
was based accordingly on the remodelled plan
of the Hall. The old Hall itself was left
in its original state untouched, and a new wing
added on the east side.
The central axis of the
old part determined the
central feature of the new
formal garden, and a
balanced effect was ob-
tained on each side of it;
the principal reason for
this being that a very fine
old avenue, a portion of
the original design, re-
mains with its centre on
the same line at some
distance from the south
front, so that, standing in
the semicircular porch,
an effective vista is ob-
tained across the gardens
to the long perspective
of the avenue. The
Doric colonnade on the
right (looking towards the
Hall) is the eastern
boundary of the south
tennis-court. The east
wall (to the left of the
drawing) with the sheltered
seat, separates the garden
partly from the park and
partly from the entrance
courtyard.
The principal part of the
design for a house and
garden at Crowborough,
for Mary, Duchess of Sutherland, is illustrated by
the ground plan reproduced on page 183. This is
planned for a beautiful site on the southern slope
of a hill (overlooking the Ashdown Forest) which
is about 700 feet above sea-level. The remaining
portion of the scheme consists of two large lawns,
rose and water gardens with tennis-courts and tea-
houses adjoining, and connected by a colonnade
with two bowling-greens. The entrance courtyard
is on the centre line of a wide and long avenue
approach of chestnut trees. This is, of course, the
main approach drive to the house; there are two
others, one on each side of the principal drive, but
each much narrower than the central one. That
on the right (approaching the house) leads to the
stables, and that on the left leads to the kitchen
wing and is for tradesmen. These three roads,
which, placed together in this way, form an effective
entrance, meet in a semicircle at the junction
with the high road. Across the chord of the semi-
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