fountaincourt

The FONTAINE part's grand parterre: the static formal garden laid out around the oval lake. A checkerboard promenade rings the water behind its stone coping; twelve gilded statues with raised torch cups and twelve bronze candelabra stand on the promenade; gravel walks continue the lake's axes, lined with conical topiary; elliptical rings of hedge scrollwork and softly glowing flower bands fill the parterre; a tall bosquet wall crowned with trees closes the garden room; and a twenty-eight-column colonnade rings the far horizon under a continuous entablature with a gold trim. The part itself (preseed.parts.p_sph) builds the lake and the fountain island; this module builds only the garden around them, all of it part-local with the promenade at y = 0 and the lake's long axis along x.