List of Edwin Lutyens buildings
Main article: Edwin Lutyens
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869 – 1944) was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses and has been referred to as "the greatest British architect"[1] This list of Edwin Lutyens buildings provides brief details of many of his works, in most cases providing links to longer articles about each work.
Name | Image | Location | State/ Country | Designed | Completed | Notes | Coordinates |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
100 King Street | Manchester | England | 1928 | 1935 | A castle-like Art Deco building surrounded on all four sides by roads, and featuring carvings by the local sculptor John Ashton Floyd; built for the Midland Bank.[2] | 53°28′50″N 2°14′32″W / 53.48058°N 2.24225°W | |
Abbey House | Barrow-in-Furness | Cumbria, England | 1910 | 1914 | Guest-house built in the Tudor Revival style, of red ashlar and slate, for Vickers Ltd,[3] | 54°08′19″N 3°12′01″E / 54.13869°N 3.20019°E | |
Baroda House | New Delhi | India | 1921 | 1936 | Residence of the Maharaja of Baroda in Delhi | 28°37′01″N 77°13′50″E / 28.61685°N 77.23047°E | |
BMA House | Tavistock Square | Central London, England | 1911 | 1925 | Headquarters building originally deisgned for the Theosophical Society with construction taken over by the British Medical Association | 51°31′33″N 0°07′44″W / 51.52592°N 0.12893°W | |
Bois des Moutiers | Varengeville-sur-Mer | Haute-Normandie, France | 1911 | 1930 | Remodelling of an existing 1850s house in the Arts and Crafts style by Lutyens, with gardens laid out by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll | 49°54′43″N 0°59′00″E / 49.91182°N 0.98326°E | |
Castle Drogo | Drewsteignton | Devon, England | 1911 | 1930 | English country house borrowing styles of castle-building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches | 50°41′45″N 3°48′40″W / 50.69587°N 3.81115°W | |
The Cenotaph | Whitehall | Central London, England | 1919 | 1920 | The site of the British annual National Service of Remembrance. Originally a wood-and-plaster structure designed by Lutyens and erected in 1919, later replaced by a replica in Portland stone and taking the form of a pylon rising in a series of set-backs to an empty tomb (cenotaph) on its summit. The model for cenotaphs around the world. | 51°30′10″N 0°07′34″W / 51.50267°N 0.12609°W | |
Deanery Garden | Sonning | Berkshire, England | 1899 | 1901 | Arts and Crafts style house with garden laid out by Lutyens and planted by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll;[4] one of the several commissions from Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine. | 51°28′28″N 0°54′41″W / 51.47447°N 0.91138°W | |
Hannen Columbarium | Wargrave | Berkshire, England | 1905 | 1907 | Columbarium combining Byzantine Revival with Arts and Crafts and with classical architectural lines, in the form of a 12 feet (3.7 m) square building of red-brick, red-tile, glass-tile and stonework.[5][6] Lutyen's earliest mausoleum design, recognised as an embodyment of the point at which he fully incorporated classical architecture in his designs.[7] | 51°29′58″N 0°52′24″W / 51.49948°N 0.87339°W | |
Heathcote | Ilkley | West Yorkshire, England | 1906 | 1908 | Villa representing Lutyens first comprehensive use of the Neoclassical style,[8] and the precursor of later buildings in Edwardian Baroque style and those of New Delhi.[9] Built for John Thomas Hemingway, wool merchant. | 53°55′28″N 1°50′11″W / 53.92456°N 1.83636°W | |
Hestercombe Gardens | West Monkton, Taunton | Somerset, England | 1904 | 1906 | Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll laid out an Edwardian garden at Hestercombe House between 1904 and 1906 for the Hon E.W.B. Portman,[10] | 51°03′08″N 3°05′01″W / 51.05220°N 3.08372°W | |
Holy Island War Memorial | Lindisfarne | Northumberland, England | 1922 | A grade II* listed First World War memorial in local pink ashlar stone, recognised as part of a "national collection" of Lutyens memorials.[11][12] | 55°40′06″N 1°48′02″W / 55.66828°N 1.80065°W | ||
Hyderabad House | New Delhi | India | 1926 | 1928 | Residence of Osman Ali Khan, Nizam VII, an amalgam of the Mughal and European architecture | 28°36′58″N 77°13′40″E / 28.61601°N 77.22789°E | |
Linden Lodge School | Wimbledon | South London, England | 1934 | 1934 | 51°26′37″N 0°12′48″W / 51.44370°N 0.21320°W | ||
Lindisfarne Castle | Lindisfarne | Northumberland, England | 1901 | 19914 | 16th Century castle remodelled as an Arts and Crafts style family home for Edward Hudson | 55°40′08″N 1°47′05″W / 55.66902°N 1.78481°W | |
Little Thakeham | Horsham | Sussex, England | 1902 | 1903 | Arts and Crafts style, Grade I listed private house designed for Ernest Blackburn, a pre-school headmaster who inherited a fortune, it is the first in which Lutyens mixed neoclassical architecture into his previously vernacular style.[13][14] | 50°55′49″N 0°25′24″W / 50.93035°N 0.42322°W | |
Marshcourt | Marsh Court, Stockbridge, Hampshire | Hampshire, England | 1901 | 1905 | Arts and Crafts style in ashlar, with a Tudor exterior employing lines of black flint and red tile.[15][16] Built for Herbert Johnson, a fortunate London Stock Exchange trader. | 51°06′02″N 1°29′32″W / 51.10069°N 1.49223°W | |
Munstead Wood | Munstead Heath, Busbridge | Surrey, England | 1889 | 1897 | A very early commission for Gertrude Jekyll, an Arts and Crafts style house inspired by local vernacular architecture | ||
Orchards | Bramley, Surrey, Godalming | Surrey, England | 1897 | 1899 | Like Munstead Wood, an Arts and Crafts style house inspired by local vernacular architecture, an early commission for William and Julia Chance. | ||
Overstrand Hall | Overstrand | Norfolk, England | 1899 | 1901 | Pevsner describes it as "one of (Lutyens's) most remarkable buildings"[17] employing a range of materials drawing from diverse architectural styles. | ||
Rashtrapathi Bhavan | New Delhi | India | 1912 | 1929 | Designed as the Viceroy's House for the Governor-General of India during the British Raj period, and now the official home of the President of India[18] | 28°36′52″N 77°11′58″E / 28.61440°N 77.19948°E | |
St Mary's Church, Pixham | Pixham, Dorking | Surrey, England | Chapel of ease to Dorking parish church, having a barrel-vaulted ceiling. Grade II* listed. | ||||
Thiepval Memorial | Thiepval | Picardy, France | 1928 | 1932 | War memorial to 72,195 missing British and South African men, who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. |
References
- ↑ "The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme" 2006. Gavin Stamp.
- ↑ Hartwell, Clare (2001), Manchester, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Penguin Books, pp. 165–167, ISBN 978-0-14-071131-8
- ↑ Historic England. "Abbey House Hotel (1197910)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ Historic England. "Deanery Garden (1000445)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ "Hannen Mausoleum". The Mausolea and Monuments Trust website. The Mausolea and Monuments Trust. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ Pearson, Lynn F. (2008). Mausoleums. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0 7478 0518 0. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ "Byzantium in Berkshire". Apollo - The International Art Magazine (Press Holdings Media Group Ltd). 1 April 2005. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ↑ Gradidge, Roderick (1981). Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate. London: George Allen and Unwin pp.44
- ↑ Gradidge, Roderick (1981). Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate. London: George Allen and Unwin pp.63–68
- ↑ "Garden walls, paving and steps on the south front of Hestercombe House". Images of England. English Heritage. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ↑ "National Collection of Lutyens’ War Memorials Listed". Historic England. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Historic England. "Holy Island War Memorial (1042308)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ↑ Gradidge, Roderick (1981). Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate. London: George Allen and Unwin. pp. 49–52. ISBN 0-04-720023-5.
- ↑ Historic England. "Little Thakeham (1027209)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Ridley, Jane (2002). The Architect and his Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens. London: Chatto & Windus. pp. 145–6. ISBN 0-7011-7201-0.
- ↑ Lloyd, David; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1973). The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 312–3.
- ↑ The Buildings of England: Norfolk 1: Norwich and the North-East, page 633
- ↑ "The history of Rashtrapati Bhavan : The official home of the President of India". 19 September 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, April 29, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.