Page 104 - cn - fg -The Spirit of Belvoir -studio format 2024 Palm Beach brochure 19-10-2023

Violet 8th Duchess of Rutland, extract from her notebook regarding the Rose Garden:

’It is approached by an old pair of iron gates. Yew hedges I put encircle all the top side.

The lie of the castle made it a very difficult question— a precipice taking its own line. Peto found a

shape of the prow of a boat the best solution - a very high wall excavating and levelling was necessary to get it

formal and interesting—and flagged paths, a half-circled seat on raised steps and a small lily pond’.