The Swiss Garden was created by Lord Robert Henley Ongley in the 1820s in a ‘Swiss Picturesque’ style, and boasts 13 listed buildings and artefacts within its 9-acre grounds.  Embellished with Victorian features during the late 19th century by Joseph Shuttleworth, the garden sits within the wider landscape of the Grade II listed Old Warden Park.  Thanks largely to timely interventions, the Swiss Garden is a rare example of a more or less complete Late Regency landscape, as many of the delicate structures in other gardens dating from this period have not survived.  The Swiss Garden has recently been extensively restored thanks to a £2.8 million Heritage Lottery grant, and as a result was taken off the Heritage at Risk register in 2014.  (see attached document and background for more detail if required)

Speaker: Corinne Price (Garden Heritage & Audience Development Manager)

Moderater: Ricardo Bravo (Serralves Park Maintenance Service Coordinator)