Municipal park 1890-95: informal layout with paths and
specimen trees on sloping site with view; bowling
green; play area 1946; static water tank converted to
paddling pool 1950-51; sundial, plinth only remains.
Municipal park by St. George Local Board late C19,
absorbed by City 1897, extended 1938; fine avenue of
London planes; specimen trees, many recent;
naturalistic boating lake with island and boat-house;
raised mound, previously bandstand, demolished
1958; bowling greens; tennis courts; play areas,
including skate-board park.
Railings. piers and gates (LB II) 1898 by Sir Frank
Wills as entrance to Victoria Library (demolished
c1960s) now park entrance.
Municipal park 1925, layout altered 1949-50, on site of
‘retreat’ with paths of levelled tombstones, formerly St.
James’s Churchyard, Bristol’s oldest church; mature
boundary plane trees; shrubberies.
Iron railings, gate piers and gates (LB II) C19.
Semi-formal gardens: sunken lawn; knot garden with
central sundial; boundary row of mature limes,
specimen trees, many unusual, notably old Judas tree;
shrubberies.
Was part of University of West of England. Site sold in 2014 for redevelopment.
State of the garden uncertain.
Former communal garden 1756 to surrounding
Georgian houses (now gone); unenclosed irregular
shape; grass with line of mature limes; rockery in
shrubbery; monument consisting of freestone conduit
head on pennant base with Gothic trefoil arches
topped by a fir cone.
Fountain (LB II) mid-late C18.