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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…

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Tomb of Sir Robert Harmsworth, Bt., MP

Tomb of Sir Robert Harmsworth, Bt., MP Gazetteer No. G0567 Date Address Hampstead Garden Suburb London, Greater London N2 0SE England Description Monument to Sir Robert Harmsworth, Bart., MP (ob….

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Post office/Goddards Cottage

…have been added for strengthening with nailed collars. HISTORY: This building is shown with its current footprint on the 1871 OS map as a post office. In 1899 Sir Edwin…

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Greywalls

…Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1901. 2-storey Arts and Crafts house formed of 2 interlocking ground plans: L-plan to W with curved inner angle, linking with U-plan to E, with attic floor……

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Mells Manor House

…Elizabethan appearance occupying the centre of the site. An earlier, pre-1543 house was altered and enlarged by Thomas Horner in the mid to late C16, and his son, Sir John…

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Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King

…the cathedral project with vigour. A site on Brownlow Hill was eventually secured for £100,000: here a cathedral could be built which would vie with the tower of Sir Giles…

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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…

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Stoke College (now Grenville College)

…and was granted to Sir John Cheke and Walter Mildmay, from whom it passed to the Triggs family in 1557. Sir Gervase Elwes bought the manor and on his death…

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Tigbourne Court

…that Lutyens never afterwards came up to this level.’ The gardens, originally by Jekyll, are no longer intact, except for a brick pergola. There is a good cottage (LITTLE LEAT)…