Unforgettable Gardens - Old Durham Gardens
The Gardens Trust talk by Martin Roberts will first offer a contextual summary of the city’s gardens, briefly looking at the medieval period, before more closely examining Durham’s late sixteenth century and seventeenth century gardens, such as those around Durham Castle, examples broadly contemporary with work at Old Durham. The continuing story of the city’s planned landscapes will consider early mid eighteenth-century sites, notably the Durham Riverbanks, many of which have known or probable links with cathedral canon and landscape designer, Joseph Spence.
The 1984-2000 restoration of Old Durham Gardens will then be illustrated in detail, concluding with the continuing restoration and replanting work of the Friends of Old Durham Gardens from 2010, including its revival of Music in the Gardens, a tradition going back almost three hundred years.
Time: 18:00 GMT
