Vision for the garden

Plans have been revealed for a three-dimensional display in the garden of the Sergeants’ Mess using special viewing screens to help recreate what the gates would have looked like. The hope is to permanently expose under cover the central part of the gates and construct stumps of the correct size showing the positions of the various parts of the rest of the gates. Visitors could look through two screens, one inside the circus, the other outside, to get a good idea of what the original building would have looked like. The garden would be professionally designed and planted so to create a pleasant and attractive place to visit and linger. The interpretation centre would include a tearoom, the profits from which would be used to make the facility free. The intention is to create an important tourist venue which would be of economic value to the town and provide Colcestrians and visitors alike with an attractive facility where they could sit down, enjoy the surroundings and buy a cup of coffee to help towards the running costs. The interpretation centre and the garden would act as the gateway to the circus itself, where low grassed mounds coupled with surface marking would enable visitors to walk around the footprint of the building and grasp the enormity of its size.