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)…
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Deanery Garden (now called The Deanery)
…the garden via a terrace and bridge. The garden is one of Lutyens and Miss Jekyll’s finest collaborations using informal planting, water and the natural appearance of the orchards and…
Fishers Hill
…sister Betty had married Gerald Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, Privy Councillor, MP. In 1900, Lutyens designed a house for the Balfours, called Fisher’s Hill and Jekyll laid…
Greywalls
…bedrooms, hence formal rooms are minimal. Entrance inscription, ‘Ung Dieu, Ung Roy’ was Lyttleton’s family motto. Gardens give instance of later partnership with Jekyll. Use of Lorimer for additions appropriate…
Lindisfarne Castle
…geometric layout, which Lutyens laid out using false perspective, so as to give it a larger size in appearance when viewed from the Castle ramparts above. Jekyll’s planting design aimed…
Stables, Little Tangley
…in 1911. Amusing N-side entrance with three canopies on iron hooks. – GARDEN. Fragments of a Jekyll layout, c. 1908–21. (O’Brien et al., 2022, p.769) Bibliography O’Brien, C., Nairn, I….
Wooden gravestone for Francis Walter Stafford McLaren, Busbridge churchyard
…headboard of simply pegged timbers around an inscription plate, for the Hon. Francis McLaren †1917, who married Barbara Jekyll; headboard of simply pegged timbers around an inscription plate, the top…
Lambay Castle
…their use of grey pantiles. The castle interior has fine stone stairs and fireplaces with remarkable stone relief geometric designs. The gardens were planted by Miss Jekyll. (Amery et al.,…