It is the centrepiece of the redeveloped Lee Bank Housing Estate, now known as Park Central.

It contains a wildflower meadow, playground, events amphitheatre, stone-terraced seating and the Sky Mirror sculpture.

It is the former churchyard of St Thomas's (1825) which was was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1940.

The surviving west tower and portico, designed by Thomas Rickman in neo-classical style, were left as a ruin and the churchyard was landscaped as a formal garden.

The First World War Memorial Colonnade, formerly located off Broad Street, was moved there in 1995.

The garden also contains memorials to British servicemen, railings with sculpted doves of peace, and trees planted by world leaders attending the G8 Summit in 1998.