. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Introduction. XXV. for a great number of years, Markyate Cell is an example of what can be done to improve an old garden by judicious changes. The house, as its name reveals, contains part of an old monastic building which served as cell to the Abbey of St. Albans. To this considerable extensions in the Tudor manner were added in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Although the period was an unfortunate one for domestic architecture, Markyate CeU is one of the shining exceptions. Its detail reveals its date, but the general grouping is ver
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Introduction. XXV. for a great number of years, Markyate Cell is an example of what can be done to improve an old garden by judicious changes. The house, as its name reveals, contains part of an old monastic building which served as cell to the Abbey of St. Albans. To this considerable extensions in the Tudor manner were added in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Although the period was an unfortunate one for domestic architecture, Markyate CeU is one of the shining exceptions. Its detail reveals its date, but the general grouping is very picturesque, and demanded an appropriate garden setting, which, until two years ago, it lacked. There were, however, some good materials, notably a fine yew hedge, and some terra-cotta balustrading of simple but. FIG. Xn.âMARKYATE CELL : THE ACCESS TO THE ROSE GARDEN. very effective design. The house is approached from the south, and stands on a hill which slopes downwards to the west and upwards to the east. The terrace on the west side of the house was already enclosed by the old terra-cotta balustrading, but the eastward slope had been planted without thought or conscious design, except for a great stepped yew hedge, which destroyed the vista that was possible, and stood m no definite relation to the house or anything else. When the owners of Markyate Cell Mr. and Mrs. MacLeod, called in Mr. Dillistone of Messrs. R. Wallace and Co. to ad^â ise them in re-modelhng the garden, one of the principal difficulties was the lack of communication between its different parts. The governing feature of the changes. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London, Country Life [etc. ]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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