Integrated and versatile, the Winter Garden offers a wide choice for meetings, exhibitions, banquets, dances, product launches, press conferences and special events.

It is set in the beautiful Devonshire Park in the heart of the hotel district and ideally located for shopping, entertainment and leisure facilities.

History

The Winter Garden was built by the seventh Duke of Devonshire in 1875 and is the oldest building in Devonshire Park. Designed by architect Henry Currey, it originally consisted of three main parts, the Floral Hall, the Pavilion (now the Gold Room) and the two-storey entrance block. Henry Currey's work was influenced by Decius Burton, to whom he was apprenticed, designer of the great conservatory at Chatsworth and the Palm House at Kew Gardens and Joseph Paxton who designed Crystal Palace. Indeed the Winter Garden once was described as a “miniature Crystal Palace"

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This page was last updated on: 8 February, 2006