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Arley Hall

Memorial Walled Garden Proposal

Each of the four gardens is enclosed by a high wall. The niches are located within the structure of the wall. Each niche will contain the ashes of the deceased with an inscribed locally sourced natural stone cover. Within the garden, a network of hedges form the primary visual means of enclosure and division between remembrance spaces. The enclosed spaces will have some simple seating but otherwise will be empty.

As well as the new walled gardens the project will also reinstate the lost double lime avenue, originally planted c1845. Today only a handful of the original trees remain, but new tree planting of Limes will ensure that once again this will become a strong north-south feature of the landscape at Arley.

The project is awaiting funding.