Landscape record 1256801000 - Rignalls, Mapridge Green Lane

Gertrude Jekyll was commisioned to design the garden for a large Edwardian house that was to be built at Rignall Wood in 1909. The owner of the house was the distinguished physician Sir Felix Sermon. The house was designed by the architects Adams and Holden. There are 27 plans of Jekyll's designs for the garden still in existance. One of the Jekyll features was a sunken garden (B2).
Analysis of Jekyll's detailed design for planting on the steps to the sunken garden (B3).
A compact, complex Arts and Crafts garden for a smaller country house built to designs by Adams and Holden. Planting advice by Gertrude Jekyll is recorded in an extensive series of plans, but it is unclear to what extent these were executed. The layout includes formal terraced lawns and garden compartments, designed to accommodate the steep Chiltern slope, with a complex flight of stone steps and landings, and a brick and timber pergola leading to a summer house. The layout and garden structures largely survive but it is unclear whether any of the Jekyll planting survives. (See report for detail) (B4).