{"id":217517,"date":"2026-01-05T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:56:06","slug":"statue-of-fidelity-replaced-at-shuttleworth-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217517\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Fidelity replaced at Shuttleworth garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swiss Garden, which features 13 listed pieces, is one of the best-kept examples of a Regency garden in the UK, the Shuttleworth Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was first created in the 1820s by Robert Henley, Lord of Ongley, and later restored and developed by the Shuttleworth family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bedfordshire County Council leased it in 1976, and it was renovated and reopened to the public in 1981, with Heritage Lottery funding allowing further restoration in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Friends of the Swiss Gardens was set up in 1992 to support and raise funds for the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity decided to begin reinstating statues following the garden&#8217;s 200th anniversary in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swiss Garden, which features 13 listed pieces, is one of the best-kept examples of a Regency garden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-217517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}