Tag Archives: Office of Works

Reimagining Kirby

Posted on 11/12/2021 by The Gardens Trust

Gardens are ephemeral creations and surely impossible to recreate once they’ve gone. That hasn’t stopped a lot of people trying. This is a trend that’s first noticeable in the early 19thc when it tended to be a romanticised view of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archaeology, conservation, Elizabethan, English Heritage, George London, Hatton, Kirby, Office of Works, ruins | Leave a comment

BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 3…

Posted on 14/02/2014 by The Gardens Trust

I suppose the question I have been trying to pose over the last couple of posts has been : are we in danger of losing our sense of the ‘romantic’ in the pursuit of the rationally ‘perfect’? The late Victorians … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged English Heritage, Hailes Abbey, James Lees-Milne, Jeremy Ashbee, John Ruskin, National Trust, Office of Works, Rest, ruins | Leave a comment

BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 2…..

Posted on 08/02/2014 by The Gardens Trust

In my last post I was waxing lyrical about the way that history and ruins in particular were romanticized in the 19thc, and how gradually Ruskin’s idea of trusteeship of the ‘national heritage’ were adapted and adopted. This came at … Continue reading →