Newbold College
 

 

Newbold College is a private residential higher education establishment based around the mid-nineteenth-century Moor Close mansion. In the 1920s the gardens were extended in Arts-and-Crafts style by Oliver Hill and these are grade ll* on the English Heritage Register.

ACTA prepared a restoration and management plan for the gardens in support of a planning application for an award winning new church near the mansion. The survival of a comprehensive collection of contemporary photographs and drawings for Oliver Hill’s garden meant that changes and remedial work could be identified very precisely.

Subsequently ACTA designed the landscape setting of a new church which linked the nineteenth-century building and modern campus with the Oliver Hill garden.

* photographs kindly supplied by www.adventistpictures.org.uk/gallery.htm

 
 
Planting around the nineteenth-century building reflected its colours and textures

  
A bold, simple scheme was necessary as a setting
for the new church
 
* The open-air meeting area next to the church

  
* A long and ornate axis links the Arts-and-Crafts
garden with the mansion
* Oliver Hill’s garden owed a great deal to Lutyens and used his characteristic detailing

 

 
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