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3 unusual facts about William Lethaby


Bothenhampton

The altar table and furnishings were designed by another leading Arts and Crafts Movement architect, William Lethaby, as was the altar front with its intertwined wild roses, leaves and stems.

William Lethaby

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.

"A house should be as efficient as a bicycle" may presage Le Corbusier, but Lethaby's theories of meaning in architecture and his use of elemental, cosmological and mystical symbolism in his design work can be seen as having more in common with post-modern figures such as Charles Jencks.


Edward Johnston

After studying published copies of manuscripts by architect William Harrison Cowlishaw, and a handbook by Edward F. Strange, he was introduced to Cowlishaw in 1898 and then to William Lethaby, principal of the Central School of Arts and Crafts.


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Symondsbury

The stained glass in a memorial window in the church was designed around 1884 by William Lethaby, who later became Professor of Ornament & Design at the Royal College of Art.