Introduction
Bellevue Park is the first public park designed by Thomas Mawson in 1893 and remains more or less intact. The park has many ornamental trees from Mawson's time and later. There is a tea pavilion with terraces and an ornamental water garden in a ravine with Pulhamite rockwork, pools and cascades.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
44 7737 630657Access contact details
Bellevue Park is a public park. It is open daily.
Owners
Newport City Council
Civic Centre, Newport, South Wales, NP20 4UR
- History
21st Century
The park has been part of the Fields in Trust historic protection programme and has been protected since November 2015 under the Queen Elizabeth II Fields protection type.
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Designations
CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales
- Reference: PGW(Gt) 19
- Grade: II
Features
- Drinking Fountain
- Refreshment Pavilion
- Description: A two-storey tea pavilion flanked by conservatories.
- Bandstand
- Cascade
- Pulhamite
- Key Information
Type
Park
Purpose
Recreational/sport
Principal Building
Parks, Gardens And Urban Spaces
Survival
Extant
Hectares
14
Open to the public
Yes
- References
References
- Cadw and ICOMOS UK, 'Newport, Bellevue Park' in {Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent} (Cardiff: Cadw, 1994), pp. 108-9 Register of Landscapes, Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales: Gwent
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 'Bellevue Park, Garden, Newport',