Edward Kemp - Works

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Key to the Grades in the list
Grade	Criteria
II*	Parks and gardens that are particularly important, of more than special interest
II	Parks and gardens of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them

List of the gardens and other works, locations, year of construction, and notes.
Name and town or village	County and coordinates	Photograph	Date	Notes and present state
Carlett Park Eastham	Merseyside	—	1846	Plans were prepared for William Laird, but the development was never built.
Lymm Hall Lymm	Cheshire	—	1849	This was Kemp's first completed commission, for James Barratt. It consisted of a flower (or rose) garden. Its present condition is unknown.
Stanacres Thornton Hough	Merseyside	—	1850	Designed for Owen Jones, Liverpool timber merchant. Now Thornton Court. Its present condition is not known.
Lytham Hall Lytham St Annes	Lancashire		c. 1850	Laid out the drive.
Limegrove Chester	Cheshire	—	1853	Designed for Robert Frost, Chester flour miller, in Lower Park Road, Queen's Park, Chester, next door to Redcliff (now Lindengrove). The present state is not known.
Redcliff Chester	Cheshire	—	1853	Designed for Thomas Gibbons Frost, Chester flour miller, in Lower Park Road, Queen's Park, Chester, next door to Limegrove. The present state is not known.
Halton Grange Runcorn	Cheshire		1853–54	Designed for Thomas Johnson, soap and alkali manufacturer of John & Thomas Johnson. Now a public park adjacent to Runcorn Town Hall. Most of the garden as planned by Kemp has been destroyed.
Capernwray Hall Carnforth	Lancashire		1855	For the Marton family.
Park Place Frodsham	Cheshire	—	1855	Commissioned by Joseph Stubs, a manufacturer of engineers' tools in Warrington. The house was later known as Castle Park and the gardens are a public park. The essential elements of Kemp's design are still present.
Norley Hall Norley	Cheshire	—	1855–56	For Samuel Woodhouse. Present condition not known.
Mollington Banastre Mollington	Cheshire	—	1856	For Philip Stapleton Humberston, Mayor of Chester and Member of Parliament for Chester. The house is currently a hotel, and at least some of the garden remains.
Agden Hall Agden	Cheshire	—	c. 1856	For Thomas Sebastian Bazley. No further details known.
Glan Aber Hough Green, Chester	Cheshire	—	c.1857	For Enoch Robert Gibbon Salisbury. No further details known.
St Helens Cemetery St Helens	Merseyside		1858	For St Helens Burial Board.
Foxdale Bunbury	Cheshire	—	1860	For William Boulton Aspinall.. No further details known.
Waterloo House Runcorn	Cheshire		1860	For Charles Hazlehurst, soap and alkali manufacturer of Hazlehurst & Sons. Now built up.
Anfield Cemetery Liverpool	Merseyside		1863	For Liverpool Burial Board. Still functioning as a cemetery. It is listed Grade II*. It is on the Heritage at Risk Register.
Pyrgo Park Havering-atte-Bower	Greater London		1863	For Joseph Bray. Now a public park.
Flaybrick Cemetery Birkenhead	Merseyside		1864	For Birkenhead's Improvement Commissioners. Still functioning as a cemetery. It is listed Grade II*.
Southport Cemetery Southport	Merseyside		1865	Still in use as a cemetery.
Grosvenor Park Chester	Cheshire		1867	The land and the design of the park were paid for by Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster. Still open as a public park. It is listed Grade II.
Newsham Park Liverpool	Merseyside		1868	Designed for the Liverpool Improvement Committee. It continues in use as a public park and had been designated Grade II. The park is on the Heritage at Risk Register.
Hesketh Park Southport	Merseyside		1868	For the Southport Improvement Commissioners, possibly assisted by Joseph Paxton. It is still used a public park and is designated Grade II.
Stanley Park Liverpool	Merseyside		1870	For Liverpool Corporation. Designated Grade II.
Congleton Park Congleton	Cheshire		1871	Designed with William Blackshaw, the town surveyor, for the town council. It is still open as a public park, and has been designated at Grade II.
Massey Hall Thelwall	Cheshire	—	1874	Designed for Peter Rylands, MP for Warrington, and a member of a family running a wire-drawing works. The garden remains much as it was when Kemp designed it.
Saltwell Park Gateshead	Tyne and Wear		1876	Designed for Gateshead Council. It continues in use as a public park and is designated at Grade II.
Queen's Park, Crewe	Cheshire		1888	Designed for Crewe Municipal Borough Council, following negotiations by Francis Webb with the London and North Western Railway to donate the land. The park is still in public use and is designated as Grade II.
Underscar Applethwaite	Cumbria		Unknown	Now the grounds of a hotel.
Shendish Apsley	Hertfordshire		Unknown	Now the grounds of a hotel. Kemp's design has more or less survived.
Dibbinsdale Bank Allport Road Bromborough	Merseyside	—	Unknown	For George Whitley. No further details known.
Lead Works Egerton Street Chester	Cheshire	—	Unknown	For Edward Walker. No further details known.
Daylesford House Daylesford	Gloucestershire		Unknown	Kemp designed the terrace garden.
Ledsham Hall Ledsham	Cheshire	—	Unknown	No further details known.
Residence (details unknown) Newton, Chester	Cheshire	—	Unknown	For James Ball. No further details known.
Bank House Runcorn	Cheshire		Unknown	Designed for John Johnson, soap and alkali manufacturer of John & Thomas Johnson. Only a small portion still remains.
Knightshayes Court Tiverton	Devon		Unknown	Features designed by Kemp include the terraced gardens, an American Garden, and the kitchen garden.
Leighton Hall Welshpool	Powys		Unknown	For John Naylor.

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