{"id":11063,"date":"2017-11-05T18:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2020-06-05T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:21:05","slug":"wrest-park-garden-is-a-stylistic-hybrid-and-all-the-better-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wrest-park-garden-is-a-stylistic-hybrid-and-all-the-better-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrest Park Garden is a stylistic hybrid &#8211; and all the better for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11065\" style=\"width: 1035px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11065\" class=\"wp-image-11065 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style-768x232.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wrest_park_baroque_style-624x188.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The central axis of Wrest Park Garden is one of the best examples of the High Baroque Style of garden design in England<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wrest Park is not as well-visited as it deserves. The garden was restored in 2011 and, faced with the question &#8216;when should it be restored to?&#8217;, English Heritage took the sensible decision to restore separate parts of the garden to different dates: the Baroque section to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/historic_design_styles\/high_baroque_garden_design_style\">Late Baroque period<\/a>, the perimeter canal section to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/historic_design_styles\/serpentine_garden_design_style\">the Serpentine Style <\/a>of the \u00a0mid-eighteenth century, the Victorian section to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/garden_landscape_design_articles\/historic_design_styles\/mixed_garden_design_style\">Mixed Style<\/a> of the mid-nineteenth century. \u00a0Visitors may well find it necessary to consult the Gardenvisit.com style chart to understand the design. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/tim-richardson\/8565767\/The-restoration-of-Wrest-Park-Bedfordshire.html\">agree with Tim Richardson<\/a> that Wrest Park may appear in a future stylistic classification as a prime example of a &#8216;National Trust restoration&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrest Park is not as well-visited as it deserves. The garden was restored in 2011 and, faced with the question &#8216;when should it be restored to?&#8217;, English Heritage took the sensible decision to restore separate parts of the garden to different dates: the Baroque section to the Late Baroque period, the perimeter canal section to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,242,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}