Brief Description
The site has a series of sheltered gardens along the cliff top promenade built during the late-19th-century. The gardens were designed by Joseph Cheal and Sons and include many decorative features including a bandstand, clock tower and Anglo-Indian style shelter.
Visitor Facilities
This is a municipal site for general public use.Detailed Description
A bandstand is the building most frequently associated with seafront gardens and here it has been moved to a central position overlooking Viking Bay. The clock-tower and shelter, faintly Anglo-Indian in style, is topped with a Viking ship for good measure.- Features
- Bandstand
- Description: A bandstand is the building most frequently associated with seafront gardens and here it has been moved to a central position overlooking Viking Bay.
- Tower
- Description: Clock tower.
- Garden Building
- Description: Anglo-Indian style garden shelter.
- Access & Directions
Access Contact Details
This is a municipal site for general public use.
- Authorities
Civil Parish
- Broadstairs and
- History
Detailed History
In the wave of patriotic and commemorative fervour at the end of the 19th-century, Broadstairs launched the Victoria Gardens. These are a series of sheltered gardens, some with flowerbeds, others with rockeries, along the promenade of the cliff top seafront. They were designed by J Cheal and Sons, Nurserymen, in 1892.
- Associated People
Just one person associated to Victoria Gardens, Broadstairs
- References
References
- Kent Gardens Trust {A Presentation of Parks: A survey of amenity parks and gardens in Kent} (Kent Gardens Trust) 25A Presentation of Parks: A survey of amenity parks and gardens in Kent
Contributors
Kent Gardens Trust