The Italian Garden forms a part of the formal gardens at Weston Park that were created from the 1850s by the then Head Gardener, John Hope, and the garden designer William Brodrick Thomas. It occupies the west side of the terraces, flanked to the north by the Orangery and Loggia and, on the east, by the dining room of the mansion. The garden comprises of formal box edged beds, paths of coloured gravel and, at its centre, a figurative fountain with a jet of water to add animation to the scene