Regents Park- Sigismund Goetze -benefactor

Sigismund Goetze

This page shows some of the highlights of Queen Mary,s Gardens in Regents Park. They were all donated to the park by Sigismund Goetze who lived in Grove House from 1909 to 1939

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Grove House

Grove House like The Holme was built by Decimus Burton in 1823. It has a portico of fluted ionic columns and was described by Pevsner as " the purest of the Regent's Park villas."

Below and above is "Boy with a frog"

The statue was donated in 1936.It is by Sir William Reid Dick and is a bronze statue on a pedestal of Finnish granite.It stands in the begonia garden.The third picture shows it in April when the flowerbeds are bare

The picture below is the "The Lost Bow" or "Boy with a Turkey".It is by A.H. Hedges and is bronze.and dates from 1915

Below is the fountain

This is a similar subject which stands surrounded by rose beds.It is by the same sculptor, made in 1913. It is called The Mighty Hunter ,or Boy with a Goose. Both were donated in 1938,

Below is the fountain with A statue which was donated in 1950 in memory of Sigismund Goetze.by his widow, Constance. The pool itself was donated by Sigismund Goetze but the inscription was inscribed after the War.

There is a merman who is holding a conch shell. He is accompanied by mermaids spouting water.The sculptor was William MacMillan, R.A.

The Stone Lantern another of his gifts.

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The "Chinese" bridge ( like the ones on willow pattern plates)was another donation.It gives access to the island in the lake.

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Apart from the sculpture that he gave the park, he also provided two beautiful gates to Queen Mary's Garden to commemorate the Jubilee and the opening of the once private botanical garden to the public under its new name. He had a vision that one day it woukld be a sculpture park to rival the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. .

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Above is the Chester Gates, dated 1932 which give access to the gardens from Chester Road.Below is a detail of the gates.






These are the Jubilee Gates which commorated the opening of the Garden in 1935. .

Here are just some of the details which show the wonderfully ornate gilded and black ironwork.


Here are two taken after it snowed


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