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IMPORTANT: Tree work will be carried out in the Garden during the week 7-11 December 2009 so that some parts may be cordoned off at times, but the Garden will not be closed. Please keep a special eye on small children so that they do not venture too close to the trees being worked on.
Nevern Square Garden in the snow, February 2008
Welcome to the Nevern Square Garden website
- Nevern Square, situated in the heart of Earls Court (London SW5), was built between 1880 and 1886, in a style known as "Domestic Revival", which harks back to the architecture of seventeenth and eighteenth century English and Flemish houses. The great merit of the square is its uniformity of style and materials. The houses are of contrasting red and yellow brick, with moulded brick pediments and delicately patterned iron railings and balconies.
- The garden, laid out when the square was built, is about three-quarters of an acre in size and roughly rectangular in shape. The broad central lawn is surrounded by gravel paths and mixed borders planted with trees, flowering shrubs and perennials. There are several magnificent old plane trees and four Victorian wrought iron gates flanked by decorative piers.
- Nevern Square Garden is private and open only to keyholding Garden Members, that is to say Garden levy-payers and Garden subscribers, who can bring in their personal guests. It is not normally open to the general public.
- This website has been created by the Nevern Square Garden Committee, which is responsible for managing the Garden. The primary purpose of the site is to provide information about the Garden for keyholders, new residents wishing to become keyholders and other local residents. We hope it will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the area, and Nevern Square in particular.
- The costs of setting up the website have been donated by the current Chairman of the Garden Committee and Alastair Calderwood, our resident IT expert (also a Garden Committee Member), has very kindly given his time to the technical creation of the site.
- The Navigation bar (on the left) is divided into two sections. The Information section tells you about the history of the Square, the trees and plants growing in the Garden, the location of the Square and how to get there, and any events planned for the coming months.
The Rules and Regulations section provides practical information for the residents of the Square and the immediately surrounding area: how to apply for a key to the Garden, how to become a subscriber (if you are not a Garden levy-payer), what to do if you want to bring your dog into the garden or if you want to hold a party, and so on.