Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery
…big column with a globe with stars on top, designed by the sculptor Sir William Reid Dick. The open forecourt of the first design has been made considerably smaller and…
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…big column with a globe with stars on top, designed by the sculptor Sir William Reid Dick. The open forecourt of the first design has been made considerably smaller and…
…Assistant Architect was William Harrison Cowlishaw (1870-1957), the Arts and Crafts architect. The cemetery was constructed in 1923. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no. 293) Bibliography Amery, C., Richardson, M….
…final competition, following the original open competition in which ninety-nine designs were received. The other seven were John Belcher, William Flockhart, Ernest George, Henry T. Hare, T.G. Jackson, E.W. Mountford,…
…Co., managers of the Castle Steamship Co., and it is by the Scots architect William Flockhart, who also created their ships’ interiors. Large but rather lifeless, with black-and-white timbering and…
…Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Faubourg-d’Amiens, in northern France. The globe atop the stone pillar weighs nearly three tons and was sculpted by Sir William Reid Dick, who worked…
…on 29 October 1921 by Field Marshall Sir William Robertson. Closure of the factory and redevelopment of the site led to the memorial being relocated to a nearby site c400m…
…The house (now flatted) has a late C17 brick centre, with cross-windows. Gabled additions N and S c.1864 for William Seth-Smith, father of the architect. These have bay windows with…
…patterned glass by O’Connor of London, 1868. On the stairs a memorial to Lord Moynihan, 1938 by Lutyens, wiht a tondo holding a bust by Sir William Reid Dick. (Leach,…
…has a sublime altar with exquisite abstract curves at the base. William Baillieu †1936 also has a plinth but supporting a frame of Doric columns and entablature above a tazza….
…building was important in prefiguring the shelters that Lutyens was to design for the cemeteries on the Western Front. Unveiled on 8 June 1922 by General Sir Ian Hamilton GCB,…