East And West Courts And Linking South Boundary Wall Of Formal Garden At Barrow Court

ST 56 NW BARROW GURNEY C.P. BARROW COURT LANE (west side)

3/12 East and West Courts and linking south Boundary Wall of formal garden at Barrow Court

G.V. II*

2 walled Courts and Garden Wall. Circa 1890 by F. Inigo Thomas. Squared and coursed rubble to Courtyard walls, rubble to Garden Wall both with dressed stone copings. Ashlar quoins and archways to Courts, iron railings. Each Court gives access through round-arched entrances to the North Lawn and the cross axis path along the north boundary of the Rose Garden. The arches to the East Court have simple roll mouldings and hipped Lutyens-style caps; those to the West Court are more ornate with foliage friezes, attached Ionic pilasters and bracketted keystones. South wall of East Court has lean-to stone tiled canopy on carved wooden brackets and east wall has inset ashlar panel with carved cartouche:and fruit and flower swags in high relief, below which is a plank settle with hood and ashlar table on large balusters. South and west walls of West Court have a continuous settle sheltered by a wooden round-arched loggia of Jacobean derivation. Both courts have ramped walls up to archways with simple iron railings between and corner obelisk finials, also 12 steps down to Lawn. Linking Boundary Wall doubles as churchyard wall on east and Rose Garden wall on south and west sides. These features together with several others comprise a fine formal garden layout designed by Thomas for Henry Martin Gibbs; it is included in the Historic Gardens Register : Part 1 Avon. (Country Life, 18 January 1902, R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).

Listing NGR: ST5139268524