01445LEA Regent's Park walk-AW.indd 1 walk-AW.indd Park Regent's 01445LEA 29/11/2019 16:11 29/11/2019 The Regent’s Park Regent’s The tate.org.uk/art/artworks/collins-may-in-the-regents-park-t03025 Cover image: regents.ac.uk/localwalks akat walk horticulture of of horticulture Download an audio version of this of version audio an Download May, in the Regent’s Park the history and and history the The walk ends at Regent’s Park underground station. underground Park Regent’s at ends walk The beginning of the walk in Queen Mary’s Gardens. Gardens. Mary’s Queen in walk the of beginning A walk through through walk A There is level access along the route, except where noted at the the at noted where except route, the along access level is There Baker Street is the closest underground station. underground closest the is Street Baker , Charles Allston Collins, 1851. Photo CC-BY-NC-ND ©Tate. 3.0 (Unported) 4NS). (NW1 Circle Inner The walk begins outside the gates of Regent’s University London on the the on London University Regent’s of gates the outside begins walk The the First World War. World First the letters and parcels to soldiers on the frontline during frontline the on soldiers to parcels and letters art and a wooden post oce that sent millions of millions sent that oce post wooden a and art stood, a pop-up gallery holding priceless works of works priceless holding gallery pop-up a stood, Discover the places where a giant conservatory once conservatory giant a where places the Discover town planning. planning. town design ideas that influenced centuries of future future of centuries influenced that ideas design and royal personages behind its layout and the the and layout its behind personages royal and Find out about the origins of the park, the people people the park, the of origins the about out Find and gardens of The Regent’s Park. Regent’s The of gardens and This walk explores the history, ornamental features ornamental history, the explores walk This Regent’s Park, which covers almost 400 acres, was one of the earliest public parks in the UK. It is named after the Prince Regent, who later became King George IV. The park was not originally intended In the early 19th century, The Prince to be public. It was designed in the Regent, who needed to fund his early 19th century as a fashionable lavish lifestyle, as well as his war private estate to house the upper with France’s Emperor Napoleon, classes. realised that there was money to be The blend of urban architecture outlay of just £12,000. Work began made from turning Marylebone Park with a countryside setting, was a on construction in 1812, but progress The land here was originally part into an exclusive residential estate. pioneering version of the concept was slow and costs escalated. of the Middlesex Forest – a vast known as rus in urbe or ‘countryside tract of woodland, full of wild deer, The royal architect John Nash in the town’. Nash’s ideas were very The landscape setting was bulls and boars. In 1538, Henry VIII planned the new development in influential, and this combination of completed within the first year, but enclosed the area for his exclusive 1811 as a complete small town, with buildings and landscape have been the building work was not finished use as a royal hunting ground, exclusive residences for the gentry, an important feature of English town until 16 years later. Ultimately, just known as Marylebone Park. a church, marketplaces, service planning ever since. eight of the private villas that Nash areas and housing for servants and proposed were built, enabling As well as hunting, the park tradesmen. Nash had hoped that the new estate the magnificent public park as we was used for royal revels. Henry would bring the Crown an income know it today to emerge in the 20th VIII and Elizabeth I both used it He used the existing circular shape of almost £60,000 per year, for an century. for entertaining visiting foreign of Marylebone Park to create a aristocrats and ambassadors from design based on concentric circles John Nash (1752-1835) The Prince Regent (1762-1830) Russia, France and Spain. and envisaged 56 private villas John Nash was a The Prince Regent lived surrounded by a landscape of lakes, leading architect of an extravagant, partying sweeping grassland and carefully his time, designing lifestyle. composed groups of trees. many country houses His interest in fashion, as well as churches, interior design and This layout was a type of design theatres and other architecture helped to known as ‘picturesque’, and buildings in London, create what became much influenced by the ideas of including Regent Street known as the Regency landscape designer Humphry and Marble Arch. He style, but his lavish Repton, with whom Nash had began work for the Prince Regent spending from the age of 18 meant worked previously. late in his career, designing Regent’s that he was always in debt. He ruled As well as the individually designed Park when he was almost 60. He in place of his father, George III, villas, each set in their own grounds, also created the Royal Pavilion at from 1811, becoming king in 1820. the park was to be surrounded by Brighton, Carlton House Terrace His dissolute ways took a toll on four imposing residential terraces, (the Prince’s London residence) and his health, and he was grossly designed to look like grand palaces. remodelled Buckingham Palace and overweight and an object of satire by St James’s Park. the time he died, aged 68. 29/11/2019 16:11 29/11/2019 1 walk-AW.indd Park Regent's 01445LEA The Regent’s Park Regent’s The tate.org.uk/art/artworks/collins-may-in-the-regents-park-t03025 Cover image: regents.ac.uk/localwalks walk at at walk horticulture of of horticulture Download an audio version of this this of version audio an Download May, in the Regent’s Park the history and and history the The walk ends at Regent’s Park underground station. underground Park Regent’s at ends walk The beginning of the walk in Queen Mary’s Gardens. Gardens. Mary’s Queen in walk the of beginning A walk through through walk A There is level access along the route, except where noted at the the at noted where except route, the along access level is There Baker Street is the closest underground station. underground closest the is Street Baker , Charles Allston Collins, 1851. Photo CC-BY-NC-ND ©Tate. 3.0 (Unported) 4NS). (NW1 Circle Inner The walk begins outside the gates of Regent’s University London on the the on London University Regent’s of gates the outside begins walk The the First World War. World First the letters and parcels to soldiers on the frontline during during frontline the on soldiers to parcels and letters art and a wooden post oce that sent millions of millions sent that oce post wooden a and art stood, a pop-up gallery holding priceless works of of works priceless holding gallery pop-up a stood, Discover the places where a giant conservatory once conservatory giant a where places the Discover town planning. planning. town design ideas that influenced centuries of future future of centuries influenced that ideas design and royal personages behind its layout and the the and layout its behind personages royal and Find out about the origins of the park, the people people the park, the of origins the about out Find and gardens of The Regent’s Park. Park. Regent’s The of gardens and This walk explores the history, ornamental features features ornamental history, the explores walk This Regent’s Park, which covers almost 400 acres, was one of the earliest public parks in the UK. It is named after the Prince Regent, who later became King George IV. The park was not originally intended In the early 19th century, The Prince to be public. It was designed in the Regent, who needed to fund his early 19th century as a fashionable lavish lifestyle, as well as his war private estate to house the upper with France’s Emperor Napoleon, classes. realised that there was money to be The blend of urban architecture outlay of just £12,000. Work began made from turning Marylebone Park with a countryside setting, was a on construction in 1812, but progress The land here was originally part into an exclusive residential estate. pioneering version of the concept was slow and costs escalated. of the Middlesex Forest – a vast known as rus in urbe or ‘countryside tract of woodland, full of wild deer, The royal architect John Nash in the town’. Nash’s ideas were very The landscape setting was bulls and boars. In 1538, Henry VIII planned the new development in influential, and this combination of completed within the first year, but enclosed the area for his exclusive 1811 as a complete small town, with buildings and landscape have been the building work was not finished use as a royal hunting ground, exclusive residences for the gentry, an important feature of English town until 16 years later. Ultimately, just known as Marylebone Park. a church, marketplaces, service planning ever since. eight of the private villas that Nash areas and housing for servants and proposed were built, enabling As well as hunting, the park tradesmen. Nash had hoped that the new estate the magnificent public park as we was used for royal revels.