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Tag: Bishop Jenkinson

Jenkinson Garden

Greeting visitors to Bishop’s Park is one of the site’s major highlights – the Jenkinson Garden.  This very special place has been designed to pay homage to the formal garden created here during Bishop John Jenkinson’s tenure between 1825 and 1840.  This was the last time in its history the site underwent major landscaping works, …

Bishop Jenkinson’s Garden Takes Shape!

In March 2021 the entrance area which currently greets visitors to the site is being transformed to provide a new garden for year-round interest.  It takes its design inspiration from the time of Bishop John Jenkinson (1825 to 1840), and is circular in plan, with attractive planting including espalier Welsh heritage apple and pear trees, …

The Abergwili Bishops

The history of the Abergwili Bishops is intriguing- and goes back over 700 years to the founding of a church college by Bishop Thomas Bek in the late thirteenth century.  It was Bek’s college that would eventually become the Bishop’s Palace in the mid sixteenth century, when successive Bishops were major figures in Welsh and …