Tyringham House (now Tyringham Hall)

Description

Lutyens created a garden around a house by Sir John Soane, ‘for the recreation of spirit and body’, with a bathing pavilion and a Temple of Music. The Koenigs were Silesian bankers interested in Theosophy, and Mr Koenig paid for the ivory cradle in the Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House in 1921. Lutyens’s Temple of Music is one of the finest expressions of his architecture of humanism: he indeed thought it faultless and loved to sit in it alone. The organ was in the crypt so that the sound rose from a grille in the floor, rather like the arrangement later devised for Liverpool Cathedral. Up to pediment level the building is local yellow rubble stone – above all is concrete. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no.264)

Bibliography

Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.

Also Cited In

Pevsner, N., Brandwood, G.K. and Williamson, E. (2003) Buckinghamshire. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England.. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

HUSSEY, C., 1929. COUNTRY HOMES GARDENS OLD & NEW: MODERN GARDEN ARCHITECTURE AT TYRINGHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE–I. Country Life (Archive : 1901 – 2005), 65(1688), pp. 740-746.

HUSSEY, C., 1929. COUNTRY HOMES GARDENS OLD & NEW: MODERN GARDEN ARCHITECTURE AT TYRINGHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE–II. Country Life (Archive : 1901 – 2005), 65(1689), pp. 780-786.

Listing Grade

II*

Listing Reference

1000476

Client

F A Konig