Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738) was an English garden designer in the onset of the naturalistic landscape style. Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues to a freer style that incorporated formal, structural and wilderness elements, Bridgeman is a somewhat obscure entity in the history of landscape architecture, his reputation eclipsed by those of his successors, William Kent http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/kent.htm and Lancelot ?Capability? Brown http://www.gardenvisit.com/b/brown1.htm (Jellicoe, et. al., 1986, p.72).

External links

• Charles Bridgeman *Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Charles Bridgeman
• Complete list of places associated with Charles Bridgeman