Hall Place Gardens

Описание: Hall Place house and gardens is a Tudor mansion built for a former Lord Mayor of London, beside the River Cray in Bexley on the east fringe of London. The oldest part of the garden, is north of the house, the front courtyard. It nestles behind wrought iron gates, believed to have been made by a former assistant to Jean Tijou, who designed the river gates for Hampton Court Palace. The lawn between the gates and Hall Place, has a circular flower bed cut into quadrants and rimmed by a low hedge.
The south front of the house has a rose garden which was planted in the twentieth century. The west front has a collection of clipped yews begun by the Countess of Limerick in 1932. A second group was planted to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953. They’re shaped into ‘beasts’ like a set of Tudor stone carvings at Hampton Court. North of the topiary, there are herbaceous borders. On the the southern edge of the garden, great trees overhang the River Cray. Hall Place also has a rock garden, a sunken garden and a kitchen garden. Overall, the style of the Gardens is best described as Arts and Crafts. It’s a good choice, because the style looks back to the renaissance layouts of Tudor England, Holland, France and Italy. The management of the gardens has been improving steadily since they were taken over by the Bexley Heritage Trust in 2005.