Summers (formerly Summer Farm)
…casement doors under gauged brick head. The garden was land- scaped in the early C20 by G. Jekyll. (Nairn and Pevsner, 1971, p.507) SUMMERS (originally Summer Farm), C17, cosily tile-hung…
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Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension
…March 1916. Miss Jekyll proposed the special feature of Rosa Madame Plantier and pink China roses where the French and British graves meet. There are 224 British Empire burials. The…
Albert Communal Cemetery Extension
…the gardens designed by Lutyens and garden architect Jekyll. A fine example is Hestercombe Garden. The pergola returns in various cemeteries, for that matter, particularly in the Somme region, as…
Auchonvillers Military Cemetery design
…included in the design because a compromise was still being reached about it. Jekyll’s scheme for the plants and greenery shows an abundant growth of borders with lavender, weigelia, holly…
Esquelbecq Military Cemetery
…and the garden architect Jekyll, such as the garden of the house Le Bois des Moutiers in Varengeville-sur-Mer in Normandy. A typical feature of the architecture is the use of…
Ruckmans
…brick dressing and tall sash windows with segmental heads. Part of the Jekyll gardens survives. Lutyens also designed (c. 1895) part of the courtyard of farm buildings, including a cottage,…
Lascombe
…interior, particularly the staircase, with a ‘landing-room’ diagonally over the porch. All internal details already classical. Pretty lodge. Originally a Jekyll garden; looking W to the heath of Puttenham Common….
Sullingstead
…buildings and grouped them in the picturesque manner of Ernest George’s watercolour tradition. But, unrestrained by Miss Jekyll’s strictures of utilitarianism, there is great variety of wall projections and surfaces…
Barton St Mary
…of a walled kitchen garden which was retained and given one of Miss Jekyll’s finest schemes for flower edges to the vegetable plots. Though the garden now exists as a…
Eaton Hall
…to Lutyens through Miss Jekyll, who had been given the job in the 1870s of overseeing the interior furnishings of the Waterhouse building. She did not, however, collaborate with him…