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  • The English Garden

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    Apr 20, 2022 4 minutes
    WORDS VANESSA BERRIDGE
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    REBECCA BERNSTEIN

    In 1922, Charles Leigh Clay built a new house to replace the Georgian mansion at Chepstow that had been home to his family since the 1860s, but which had been requisitioned during the war. He chose a bare hillside, three miles away and 550 feet above sea level, for its spectacular view across the Severn.

    Wyndcliffe Court, described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘Cotswold Jacobean’, was designed by local architect Eric Francis and built from red sandstone quarried in the Forest of Dean. House and garden were created together, with the same sandstone used for the walls, terracing and summerhouse, and with linked detailing. The lily pool niche in the Rose Garden, for instance, reflects the scalloped porch canopy

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