Crooksbury House
…garden was by Gertrude Jekyll, mainly of 1892 and 1902. The client was Arthur Chapman, Chairman of Surrey County Council, a Calcutta merchant. His wife Agnes, who was the daughter…
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…garden was by Gertrude Jekyll, mainly of 1892 and 1902. The client was Arthur Chapman, Chairman of Surrey County Council, a Calcutta merchant. His wife Agnes, who was the daughter…
…Mrs Chapman of Crooksbury (q.v.), 1908 by Lutyens; low with a shaped and moulded top; less bombastic than his later memorials. (O’Brien et al., 2022, p.684) Bibliography O’Brien, C., Nairn,…
…bricks with mullion windows and leaded lights. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.87) SOUTH STREET was set out in 1869 as New Road, connecting The Borough to the railway station…
…Nicholson. It is worth noting that in 1912 when Lutyens was adding the masterly vernacular wing to Folly Farm he starting work on New Delhi. (Amery et al., 1981, cat…
…the former rear approach and well, now a lawn with ornamental planting containing the C20 partly thatched, partly stone-tiled kitchen wing, with a narrow passage or ‘drang’ separating it from…
…stone-walled terraces connected by steps. Designed by Lutyens with Gertrude Jekyll, who was Pamela McKenna’s aunt. To the w, paths and terraces, part of improvements by W. S. Gilpin, 1825–32….
…a vernacular style. Red brick ground floors, tile hung upper floors with gabled, gambrel and hipped tiled roofs. Red brick chimneystacks. Wood mullioned leaded casement windows. Irregular grouping of masses:…
…wing, corbelled end stack to left and further stacks to rear. Leaded casement fenestration, 3 windows on the first floor, 3 windows below, alternating with two large buttresses to left….
…Seven-window centre block linked by five-window quadrants to the wings. Brown brick with fine red brick dressings. Green slated roofs. [Centre Block: Entrance Front (West)] Moulded brick bands between storeys….
…recognized as the work of assistant architect Cowlishaw. The composition was derived from the triumphal arch, one of Lutyens’ favourite themes in his work for the IWGC. The wall surrounding…