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The Garden at Carew Manor, Beddington: An Interim Report on Investigations 1979-2005 John Phillips and Nicholas Burnett Carshalton & District History & Archaeology Society Occasional Paper 1 - 2008
This report summarises the results of a long running documentary and archaeological investigation of the gardens at Carew Manor, Beddington near Croydon but within the London Borough of Sutton.
(Click on either picture for a larger version. Picture on right not in report).
The garden had two main phases. The first in the second half of the 16th century was the work of Sir Francis Carew (c.1530-1611). It included at least two grottos, an artificial rock and an orangery and was at the leading edge of English garden design. The report describes an excavated fragment of an ornamental grotto-like structure of probably Elizabethan date and traces the subsequent history of alterations. The structure was associated with several pieces of pottery in the manner of the French ceramicist Bernard Palissy. Two pieces of Renaissance garden metalwork are also described.
The second major garden was constructed for Nicholas Carew 1st Baronet who owned the house 1707-17. This was a more conventional garden in a ‘Dutch’ style.
The site was famous for its orangery first created by Sir Francis in the 16th century and greatly remodelled in the 18th century. The documentary evidence is summarised and there is a detailed account of the surviving structure which dates from the 18th century.
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(A few of the illustrations in the report. All are greyscale in the printed report)
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