Chapter XIII 



Formation of a new Place — Application of Garden- 

 ing and Architecture — Characteristic Architecture 

 — How far it should prevail internally 



THE necessity of uniting architecture and land- 

 scape gardening is so strongly elucidated in the 

 Red Book of Bayham that I gladly avail myself of the 

 permission of its noble possessor to insert the following 

 observations ; but as the ruins of Bayham Abbey are 

 generally known to those who frequent Tunbridge 

 Wells, it is necessary to premise that the situation 

 proposed for a new house is very different from that 

 of the abbey. 



No place concerning which I have had the honour 

 to be consulted possesses greater variety of water, with 

 such difference of character as seldom occurs within 

 the limits of the same estate. The water near the 

 abbey, now intersecting the meadow in various chan- 

 nels, should be brought together into one river, wind- 

 ing through the valley in a natural course : this may 

 be so managed as to drain the land while it improves 

 the scenery ; and I suppose the whole of this valley 

 to be a more highly dressed lawn, fed by sheep and 

 cattle, but without deer. 



Above this natural division the water will assume 

 a bolder character ; that of a lake or a broad river, filling 

 the entire bottom of the valley, between two wooded 

 shores, and dashing the foot of that steep bank on 

 which the mansion is proposed to be erected. This 



