St Mary's August 2018 Parish Magazine

Humphrey Repton
continued
Some more information had come to
light about Humphrey Repton the
landscape gardener, with thanks to
Carolyn Smith, from a grainy
transcript on Micro film from
Repton’s red book.
It appears he did not like straight
lines of trees, he felt the four
avenues of trees approaching
Finedon Hall were old fashioned.
He advised that the lake or stagnant
pool should be concealed by a
plantation and the farm buildings
nearby to be taken down as this
spoilt the view from the Hall.
‘Adapting the modern style of
Gardening around the Hall had
difficulties because in the East the
Vicarage, school and the Church
itself, however beautiful, are much
too near to the Hall.
If the Vicarage, and school are
removed, the Church might be
(insulated, difficulty reading the
word), instead of removing them if it
were possible to plant them out’. He
goes on to suggest that various walls
and buildings should be removed,
the Vicarage pigeon House and
when these were removed the
village presents itself.
The village will not be an unpleasant
object if some of the most
unpleasant ( writers word) houses
are taken down.
The rest of extracts were difficult to
understand but fortunately for us the
Hall, school etc were not removed to
attune to his view of a modern
landscape garden.
Dates for diary
Saturday 22nd September
Waods Present
‘Memories From The Musicals’
Gladstone WMC 7.30pm
Saturday 20th October
Jonathan Reynolds Presents
‘Finedon’s Got Talent 3’,Star Hall
7.30pm
Saturday 10th November
Jonathan Reynolds Presents
‘Entertainment At Your Service’
Star Hall 7.30pm
Saturday 1st December
Jonathan Reynolds Presents
‘Curtain Up At Christmas’ Star Hall
7.30pm