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The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Newsletter Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Newsletter Christmas 2020 Autum2020 The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Newsletter Wotton House, Wotton Underwood, ‘I beg to see you immediately without a moment’s loss Buckinghamshire of time – poor Wotton is burned down – get one of your foremen ready to set off immediately…’ But his son, at first Earl of Temple but subsequently Marquis of Chandos, who was living at Wotton had his own ideas. However, on one point they were agreed, that the architect’s more extravagant schemes should be rejected in favour of plainer alternatives; that the work should be carried out as quickly as possible and ‘wages of all workmen to be reduced’. It would Home of Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust’s patron have been scant David Gladstone comfort to the Wotton workforce to In 1989 I was fortunate to meet Christopher Lamb, an know that tradesmen architect who had worked with Donald Insall’s at Stowe were practice on the restoration of Wotton House under the suffering similar guidance of the indefatigable Mrs Elaine Brunner deprivations. Sir John Soane, National Portrait Gallery who, in 1957, had purchased the main house and the In the event the work was completed by the adjoining Clock Pavilion, thus saving the house from stipulated date 1 January 1823, the cost not demolition. At that time the house was empty, exceeding £20,000 as stipulated by the Marquis. decaying, its fate in the hands of developers who (Wotton House, 1740: A brief history and guide) planned to replace it with a housing estate. Subsequently, and following the death of the 3rd The parish of Wotton Underwood had been home of Duke of Buckingham in 1839, the last direct the Grenville family for several centuries, but all the Grenville male heir, the house was let to a succession documentary evidence relating to the building of the of tenants eventually to be sold by the family in original Wotton House, by Richard Grenville in 1704 1957. The house had become derelict and the – with the documentary evidence relating to the grounds sold off in small parcels. following 120 years - was destroyed when fire broke At this critical moment in Wotton’s history, out in 1820. enter Mrs Elaine Brunner: She arrived in 1957, On a late October night a fire started in a maid’s chauffeured by an antique dealer friend in search room on the top floor and spread so fast that by dawn of ‘spare’ columns to go by her swimming pool. there was nothing left but the charred walls, Lady It must have been a grim sight. The copper roof William Wynne (née Grenville) wrote to a friend the stripped for salvage, following week: the fireplaces all The poor people at Wotton after having worked like removed, a pond of horses as long as there was anything to be done sat water on the themselves down in front of the poor old walls and drawing-room floor. cried. The bulldozers were The Marquis of Buckingham (who confusingly standing by to clear became the Duke of Buckingham during the course the lot in a fortnight. of the rebuilding) was the ultimate owner of Wotton. The situation was At the time living in Stowe, he hurried to Wotton intolerable. dispatching a message to his friend the then plain Mr National Portrait Gallery Soane in London: 1 Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Newsletter Christmas 2020 Autum2020 She arranged for Wotton to be bought for £6,000, to Work began in 2013 under the supervision of be paid in six annual instalments to the Michael Harrison, who used ‘an intuitive Buckinghamshire County Council. She telephoned understanding of Soane’s work, developed over the her husband, Wing Commander Patrick Brunner, and years spent working on Soane’s Wotton interiors’ apparently told him: ‘Darling, I have bought a house, whenever an impasse was reached. and I just know you are going to love it.’ (Obituary: Elaine Brunner 1907–1998.) Referring back to Christopher Lamb, the architect who had worked on the restoration work: Christopher had come to Stowe as a volunteer in 1989 and asked if I would like to visit Wotton and meet Mrs Brunner. What a privilege … she was charming. Following the visit Michael Harrison, who was her right-hand man in the restoration of the landscape, becoming Wotton’s Estate Manager, made a number of visits to Stowe to see the National Trust’s work on the garden buildings. Quite apart from the house, Mrs Brunner was intent on restoring the landscape and its features. When April and David Gladstone (Mrs Brunner’s daughter and son-in-law) inherited the house in 1998, A view of the tribune showing the dome and its oculus. The they continued the restoration work, taking on a heraldic shields painted on canvas, survived, stored in an attic by Mrs Brunner. Country Life, 18 November 2015 major room a year using a small team of trusted local craftsmen under the supervision of the incomparable Completed in 2015, Wotton’s restored tribune is a Estate Manager, Michael Harrison. triumph achieved with skill, care and patience by At the centre of Soane’s re-planned interior was a Michael Harrison and his team. It is also a heroic majestic top-lit staircase hall, or ‘tribune’. No gesture on the part of David Gladstone whose complete record of its original appearance remained determination and vision have brought this project to so any chance of its reinstatement was slight. completion. Soane surely would have approved. However, in 2004 the architect Ptolemy Dean Rosemary Jury produced a watercolour drawing (see below), from the few surviving Soane plans and elevations, Welcome to our Christmas Newsletter. This is a showing how the tribune could be reconstructed. Mr truly ‘bumper’ issue with a wide variety of articles to Dean then produced more detailed designs, but the round off 2020 and in a printed version posted to all cost of implementation seemed prohibitively high, so our members, contributors and supporters. a phased approach to the work was devised, keeping Please do continue to send in your interesting and the workforce to a minimum. informative contributions. Smaller articles in the form of ‘Postcards from…’ are always welcome as well as the research and campaign articles. Tell us how Covid has changed your experience and what has become the ‘new normal’: [email protected] Editor: Gwen Miles Sub-editor: Clare Butler Contents Wotton House – home of David Gladstone 1 Planning Co-ordinator’s Report 3 In search of artists’ gardens – a road trip 3 Amersham Women Artists 1 5 Work is underway to restore the Water Gardens at Great Linford Manor Park 7 Barking up the wrong tree! 8 Buckinghamshire gardens on film 10 Gardens through the letterbox 10, 11 Not quite a bear hunt: looking for animal sculptures in Milton Keynes 12 Court Garden and Higginson Park, Marlow 13 News Snippets and Events 16 2 Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust Newsletter Christmas 2020 Autum2020 Planning Co-ordinator’s Report Manor (Grade II) we were pleased to see that a Summer kept us busy with planning applications retrospective planning application for a utilitarian, which had been in development before the pandemic albeit necessary, parking barrier was given only a arrived but, by late summer, our planning team noted temporary approval to allow the applicant time to a brief period of quiet reflecting the impact of find a more suitable solution – an approach that we lockdown. However, it didn’t last long and, in the had recommended. past six weeks, we have considered and responded to An application for a new house at Dropmore was over a dozen applications across Buckinghamshire. refused and we welcome an approach from the We have been particularly pleased that the applicant’s representatives to discuss our concerns formation of the Buckinghamshire Council unitary with them as they develop revised proposals. We also authority back in April has resulted in the Bucks note that an application for alterations to a house at Gardens Trust being more widely consulted across Gayhurst Park (Grade II) was refused planning the county. In particular, the South Bucks area has permission after the BGT’s response was one of a been remarkably busy with seven planning number of objections. We now prepare ourselves to applications some of which were relatively review a revised planning application for a new straightforward matters such as roof repairs at Design and Technology Building at Stowe School. Bulstrode which did not impact on the Grade II* Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions, we have registered park or alterations to a conservatory roof been unable to make site visits to any of the on a private property which was a positive application sites which means that every response we improvement as it would reduce light emission which make follows a desk-based assessment of the potentially can impact on a registered park or garden. proposals. While we feel confident in all of our At The Lambourne Club near Dropmore Park responses, the opportunity to visit a site in person (Grade II), we offered some recommendations for always adds to our understanding of the significance mitigating the impact of a proposed new pumping of these special places. Joanne Mirzoeff house to irrigate the golf course and, at Stoke Park (Grade II*) we warmly welcomed revised proposals Research and Recording for a new security hut at the entrance drive. However, In search of artists’ gardens – a road trip through we objected strongly to proposals for the demolition the Chilterns and replacement of an existing house near Langley Recently, I have started to write up more of our Park (Grade II). research on artists’ gardens in readiness for This year’s ‘Award for the Most Glamorous uploading it to the Bucks Gardens Trust website.
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