Unforgettable Gardens - Ickworth Park

Suffolk Gardens Trust presents Ickworth – a stupendous monument to folly with Caroline Holmes.
Ickworth’s clayland park provides a fascinating setting for the architectural developments of the Hervey family from John, created Baron Hervey, then 1st Earl of Bristol, to the sad demise of the 7th Marquess in 1999. The Earl Bishop provides an eighteenth-century interlude that takes us across Europe, into Ireland and back to Bury St Edmunds, his architect wrote: ‘The Rotunda is a monument to the idea of Italy in the English mind’ but for his widow it was his stupendous monument to folly. The formal gardens were laid out in the early 1800’s to replicate the floor plan creating what is arguably the first Italianate garden in the UK. Now a National Trust property.
Caroline Holmes is Academic Tutor and Course Director for the University of Cambridge ICE, lecturer for The Arts Society, and is the author of 12 books.

Time: 18:30 GMT

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