Hampstead Garden Suburb
…its most extreme in the interior where tunnel and dome vaults meet the open timber roofs of the aisles. Lutyens described this church in a letter to Herbert Baker in…
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King’s Somborne War Memorial
…Somborne arose because of the relationship between the architect and Herbert Johnson. The memorials are very similar – the only difference being the base upon which the memorial stands (King’s…
Heywood House
…in the late 1700s and the small interlocked formal gardens created by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll in the early 1900s. After Trench built Heywood House in 1773, he…
Hestercombe House
…wide terrace on its south front, with parkland meadows falling away to a magnificent view, a setting which must have stirred Gertrude Jekyll’s memories of Italian gardens. Added to that…
The Hut (Munstead Wood Hut)
…are oak-framed with pegging. At The Hut Miss Jekyll could recreate the comparative simplicity of an ‘Arts and Crafts’ life. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.80) With her brother ensconced…
Chussex
…off Deans Lane, beginning with an avenue of plane trees up to another classical house by Lutyens: Chussex, 1908, for W. Herbert Fowler, club secretary. Middle three bays of the…
Stockbridge War Memorial
…of a Lutyens client as a local resident – in this case, Herbert Johnson. Having made his fortune on the Stock Market, Johnson commissioned the Lutyens to design a large…
War memorial tablet, Church of St Peter
…DOWN THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR AND HELPED TO WIN THIS VICTORY FOR FREEDOM/ AND RIGHT./ MCM/XIV MCMXIX. 1939 ALSO/ HERBERT ARTHUR LANG 1945 (Imperial War Museum, n.d.) Bibliography…
Brooklands
…bathroom with handmade fish decorated tiles and original fittings designed by Sir Hugh Casson in the 1930s. Jane Austen and A A Milne stayed at Brooklands frequently and Gertrude Jekyll…
Goddards
…COURT laid out by Jekyll, with stone and tile paving and a central pond in a deep well. Jekyll’s interest in the artefacts of Surrey vernacular rural life most evident…