Goddard's Garden Statues, York.
- last year
Yorkshire Post Photographer Bruce Rollinson went along to Goddards National Trust garden in York which is open to visit from March – October.
New to see, but very much an original part of the garden is a series of statuary, including a pair of griffins, a pair of pelicans and a set of urns. They were originally acquired by Noel and Kathleen Terry and family and placed in their garden at Goddards; probably in the 1930s. The statues were removed from the garden on the sale of the house to the National Trust in 1984 and relocated to the gardens of other family members; In time, kindly returned by the Terry family to their original home after nearly 40 years.
Tom Longridge, Senior Gardener said, “It was thanks to an old black and white photograph in the archives and a painting by Betty Terry as a little girl that we were able to position the pieces with confidence”.
New to see, but very much an original part of the garden is a series of statuary, including a pair of griffins, a pair of pelicans and a set of urns. They were originally acquired by Noel and Kathleen Terry and family and placed in their garden at Goddards; probably in the 1930s. The statues were removed from the garden on the sale of the house to the National Trust in 1984 and relocated to the gardens of other family members; In time, kindly returned by the Terry family to their original home after nearly 40 years.
Tom Longridge, Senior Gardener said, “It was thanks to an old black and white photograph in the archives and a painting by Betty Terry as a little girl that we were able to position the pieces with confidence”.