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12 unusual facts about Edwin Lutyens


1912 in India

The British Viceroy made Sir Edwin Lutyens responsible for the overall plan of Delhi and in 1912 he visited New Delhi to start his work.

Albany Cottage Hospital

The design followed a contemporary movement of architects, such as Edwin Lutyens, that drew influence from the English cottage.

Brushford, Somerset

The Herbert memorial chapel, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy also designed by Lutyens.

Finsbury Circus

Fronting the northwest quadrant of the oval, with fronts on roads entering the Circus from the west stands Edwin Lutyens's massive Britannic House (1921–25, listed Grade II), designed for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP; its free-standing architectural sculptures are by Francis Derwent Wood.

Gole Market

Gole Market is a neighbourhood in the heart of New Delhi, India, which grew around the octagonal market by the same name built by Edwin Lutyens in 1921 within a traffic roundabout.

The octagonal market was built in the axis planned by Edwin Lutyens as part of New Delhi's layout.

Lindsey House

One part of the house features a garden designed by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll in 1911.

Lowesby Hall

Brassey commissioned Edwin Lutyens (1866–1944) to alter and extend the Hall and gardens.

Montreal Hunt

After fighting in the Crimean War, Lutyens (father of Edwin Lutyens) became an artist and one of his paintings, The Kill in the Fog, depicts a scene from his time with the Montreal Hunt.

National Capital Authority

There was also interest in Classicism by English architects, including Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for many of the public buildings in New Delhi built from 1912 to 1929 in the wake of the decision to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government.

Robert Grant Irving

The principal architects were the two leading practitioners of the day, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker.

Victoria Park, Leicester

The War Memorial, a quadrifrons arch, was designed by Edwin Lutyens and built in 1923, to commemorate the dead of the First World War.


A World Requiem

and it is likely that Foulds wished to present his work as a musical equivalent of the Cenotaph recently erected in Whitehall and designed by his friend Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Church of St Nicholas, Brushford

The Herbert memorial chapel includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy designed by Edwin Lutyens.

Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour

From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.

Little Thakeham

The property was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the medieval vernacular style for wine importer Ernest Blackburn.

Middleton Stoney

Middleton Park is a neo-Georgian country house built in 1938 by Edwin Lutyens and his son Robert for the 9th Earl of Jersey.

St Andrew's Church, Sonning

Also adjoining the churchyard is Deanery Gardens, an early 20th-century Edwin Lutyens house with a Gertrude Jekyll garden, well hidden by high walls apart from a good view from the top of the church tower.