Edwin Lutyens

1869-1944

Street House in Thursley Le Bois des Moutiers at Varengeville Tigbourne Court, Witley, Surrey

Street House in Thursley, Surrey where the Lutyens family moved when Edwin was a boy and where he grew up.
MAS/36L1C/4

A bit of a rogue in Collections as this is actually in France. Lutyens had been selected to design the British Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 by Gertrude Jekyll's brother Sir Herbert Jekyll which led to this commission, Le Bois des Moutiers at Varengeville near Dieppe for Guillaume Mallet in 1898.
JVB/M30A1C/10

Tigbourne Court, Witley, Surrey, built in 1899 for Edgar Horne.
YL/36C/3

Lindisfarne Castle Hestercombe near Taunton Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb

In 1902 Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life and a champion of Lutyens' work, bought Lindisfarne Castle and Lutyens was asked to do the renovation.
GP/29L1A/8

Hestercombe near Taunton in Somerset where, in 1903, Lutyens was commissioned to remodel the gardens and provide an orangery.
RO/33T1/4

Free Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Part of Lutyens' plan for the centre of the scheme which also included St Jude's Church and a school dating from 1908.
NH-NW11-1B-1

Castle Drogo Castle Drogo The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent

In 1910 Lutyens was commissioned by Julius Drewe, who made his fortune with the Home and Colonial Stores, to build him a castle on what he fancied to be his ancestral estate on the edge of Dartmoor. Even after reducing the size of the project by two thirds Castle Drogo still took over twenty years to complete.
Left YL/11E/8, right JVB/11A2/5

The Salutation, Sandwich, Kent, built in 1911 as a bachelor retreat for Gaspard and Henry Farrer, solicitors of Lincoln's Inn.
GH/21A/7

Great Dixter The Chicken Pendent lamp fitting

Great Dixter was a decrepit 15th century farmhouse when bought by Nathaniel Lloyd and Lutyens was engaged to restore and expand it. He retained the original features and blended new additions with the original with great sympathy. To expand the house he bought a yeoman's house at Benenden, demolished and re-errected it at Great Dixter.
GW-37G1-12

The Chicken Pendent lamp fitting, designed by Lutyens for the nursery possibly in the Viceroys Palace, Delhi around 1916. We don't know where this example is located.
JVB/M38E4/2

The Cenotaph Grosvenor House The grave of Gertrude Jekyll

In 1919 Lutyens was asked by Lloyd George to provide a catafalque around which the peace celebrations could take place. Lutyens did not like the name catafalque and it was he who suggested Cenotaph. Originally intended as a temporary structure of plywood, it was so well received that he adapted the original design to be re-built in stone.
JM/SW1/6/2

In 1926 Lutyens was engaged to oversee proposals for the Grosvenor House redevelopment in Park Lane. Rather than approving the existing architects plan he produced his own grand design including a high level bridge, rooftop pavilions and a classical colonnade at street level, the final plan was a compromise, omitting the bridge, but was essentially Lutyens' design.
SEL/W1/1/11

The Grave in St John the Baptist Church, Bushbridge, Surrey, of Gertrude Jekyll, her brother Herbert and his wife Agnes designed by Lutyens in 1932, the year both Herbert and Gertrude died.
RP-36B2-5

Cockington in Devon Trafalgar Square

In the mid thirties Lutyens was asked by the Indian Behar family to advise on the development of the village of Cockington in Devon. The existing village was a jumble of thatched cottages which Lutyens complemented with the Drum Inn, while his son Robert joined him on the village layout.
HIL/11T6C/6

The Admiral Beatty and Admiral Jellicoe Memorial Fountains in Trafalgar Square, designed by Lutyens between 1937 and 1939.
LS/WC2/3/7

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