Commercial pleasure gardens designed by Charles Harcourt Masters, opened 1795, and featuring many attractions now lost (painted tableaux, sham castle, grotto etc). Bisected by canal 1810, and railway 1840-41. Large number of mature trees and shrubs remain.
A 3 year NHLF backed Restoration Project to restore and conserve the historic buildings including the Loggia and gardens, improve the landscape and provide new visitor facilities at the former Regency pleasure gardens took place 2019-2022
- Text References
Brenda Snaddon - "The Last Promenade Sydney Gardens, Bath". Millstream Books, Bath 2000.
Michael Forsyth - "Bath ,Pevsner Architectural Guides". Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003
- Associated Buildings
Sydney Hotel (now Holburne Museum [LB I] ) 1796, Thomas Baldwin and modified by Harcourt Masters; Sydney House (LB II), late C18-early C19 by John Pinch.
Rotunda (LB II) C18/19; garden shelter (LB II) early C20; Italianate pavilion and cloakroom c1840-50 (LB II); ornamental bridges and walls associated with canal and railway (all LB II) by I.K. Brunel.
- Planning History
Ref. Applications Numbers 19/05443/REG03 and 19/05444/REG13 Further improvements have been made to the scheme and those elements that fall outside of the original planning and listed building consent have been wrapped up into this additional application. The complete scheme has been re-issued so that the additional elements can be seen in context of the original submission. The new Design, Heritage, Access and Sustainability Statements (DHASS) for buildings and for landscape, sets out the proposed additional elements, the nature of the change and the reasons. There is a separate Landscape Design Statement.
- Conservation Management Plan
See Planning History