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Tag Archives: monastery
Prior Wibert’s Waterworks
One subject that always seems to raise a lot of interest on the courses I run about the history of gardens is the mediaeval garden. Although most of us will have a vague picture of what we think they were … Continue reading
The perfect monastic garden?
Happy St Fiacre’s Day! [and if you don’t know who he is click on the link! ] which makes it a very appropriate day for today’s post which is all about this rather dull looking image on the right. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlemagne, kitchen garden, Mediaeval, monastery, orchard, St Gall
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Visiting a Duke 18thc style…
At the end of last year I wrote about the travel journals of John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington. His diaries are, unlike most 18thc published writing, quite informal in style , probably because he had no intention of putting his … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquarian, grimsthorpe, Humphry Repton, John Byng, John Vanbrugh, monastery, ruins, rustic, Topiary, tourism, travel, William Stukeley
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St Fiacre
I forgot to celebrate St Fiacre’s day last year. I bet you did too. But I did better this year and did so in the appropriate surroundings of the Gardens Trust’s annual conference in Birmingham which is taking place … Continue reading
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Tagged fiacre, France, gardeners, hermit, Ireland, Jean de la Quintinye, John Claudius Loudon, Louis XIV, monastery, pilgrim, saint, shrine, Versailes, well
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