Mells Park House
…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….
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Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery
…with Cowlishaw as his assistant. However, garden architect Gertrude Jekyll’s archives are known to contain a Lutyens’ design of October 1917, which is a perfect likeness of this cemetery as…
Southampton Cenotaph
…principle of a cenotaph, which is derived from the Greek word “kenotaphion” (empty tomb). It is thought that Lutyens drew inspiration from a solid bench seat in Gertrude Jekyll’s garden…
Munstead Orchard
…I., Pevsner, N. (1971) Surrey (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). 2nd edn. Yale University Press. Listing Grade II Listing Reference 1189776 Client Gertrude Jekyll for Albert Zumbach (Swiss gardener)…
The Red House
…Castle Drogo. Gertrude Jekyll had planted the garden down the precipitous slope that must have been good experience for planting Lindisfarne where it is said she lowered small children in…
Winkworth Farm
…Gabled dormer to left. Central stack. Timber framed gabled bay set back to right. Very picturesque house in a garden originally planted by Gertrude Jekyll. (Nairn and Pevsner, 1971, p.303)…
La Neuville British Cemetery
…Stone were two pyramidal oaks. The four pavilions were raised in brick with a plinth and cordon of white natural stone, a material often applied by Lutyens. Gertrude Jekyll added…
Cenotaph
…July 19, 1919. Lloyd George saw Lutyens early in June and told him that a ‘catafalque’ was required in Whitehall. Remembering Gertrude Jekyll’s massive rustic seat at Munstead which, a…
Spalding War Memorial
…the request of Barbara McLaren, the neice of Gertrude Jekyll, whose husband Francis was the local MP and who died in a plane accident in 1917. The original proposal was…
Chinthurst Hill
…pointed rubble with tile-hung gables and elaborate brick chimneys; the terraced garden was planted by Gertrude Jekyll. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.51) Bargate stone house in the Elizabethan style,…