Department of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture Program
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 322
History of Landscape Architecture
Spring Semester: Colliton

Unnatural England "The English Renaissance"
1200-1750 AD

I.     Historic Perspective: Cultural Context, Socio-political, Philosophy, Unique Contributions, Topography, and Design Vocabulary.

II. Two Garden-Planning Systems

A. Conservation of Land (The Palace at Kew)

B. European Garden Concepts

III. Haddon Hall (1470c AD)

100 Miles north of London  (below is a plan of the country estate - note the order brought to the estate by the terraces)

V. Levens Hall (1558-1603 AD) Levens, Kendal, Cumbria - Northern England near the Scottish border.
Brief History of Levens Hall:  The owner in 1688 was a Colonel Grahme, and he commissioned  Monsieur

Guillaume Beaumont to reconstruct the garden and park.  By 1694 the amazing topiary started to make

Leavens a national reputation. Later, Colonel Grahme's daughter, the Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire,

carried on her fathers work. The house and garden have subsequently passed down the family with few

alterations to the present owner, Hal Bagot.  The topiary is of traditional yew, both golden and common,

 and with box scattered in between. Between the trees the flower beds add to the colour. The grey stone

An Elizabethan park with a famous Jacobean house which had a great Jacobean garden, designed by Thomas Chaundler,

Salomon de Caus and John Tradescant. The layout has changed many  times since then but now has a 'seventeenth

century character' with terraces and garden enclosures, including a knot garden, herb garden and privy  garden. 

The park is well-wooded has an ancient avenue of oak trees.

IX. Blenheim (1722 AD and beyond) Near Oxford