Architecture by Edwin Lutyens Architect, England, UK
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Key Lutyens Buildings - featured:
Grey Walls Hotel, Gullane, east Scotland
Ferry Inn, west Scotland
Lindisfarne, Northumbria, northeast England
Featured Lutyens Buildings - in more detail
Edwin Lutyens only designed two houses in Scotland
Grey Walls, in Gullane, East Lothian
Lutyens-designed house, Gertrude Jekyll-designed gardens: like entering an Agatha Christie film.
Edwin Lutyens Architect : Grey Walls - former Hotel
Lutyens house: image © isabelle lomholt
Lutyens House - Ferry Inn, an Arts & Crafts house near Helensburgh
The house was put up for sale in late 2004 by FPD Savills
Category A Listed House
Strictly Private
Built: 1896/97 for Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll
Edwin Lutyens house : Ferry Inn, west Scotland
Lutyens extended the original Ferry Inn that dated from around 1800. Edwin was only 27 when he started the project. The original Inn was later demolished. The house is in the Arts & Crafts style and has three rather different elevations.
[Building in the general area of Ferry Inn: Hill House by Rennie Mackintosh]
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumbria, northeast England
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Lutyens building: image © adrian welch
Edwin Lutyens castle : buildings on Holy Island
Britannic House, 1 Finsbury Circus, London
1921-25
photo © webbaviation
Built as Anglo Persian Oil Company, later BP
St Jude on the Hill, Central Square, Barnet, London NW11
1910
photo © Nick Weall
Hampstead Garden Suburb Buildings
Edwin Lutyens in England:
Silver Street bridge in Cambridge by Queens' College & Benson Court at Magdalene College (1930-32): Cambridge Architecture
Another Scottish Country House by an English architect in the Arts & Crafts style: Sandford Country House Hotel by architect MH Baillie Scott
Edwin Lutyens Architect - Background
In 1885 Lutyens became a student at the Kensington School of Art but did not last the course. He joined the office of Ernest George and Peto where he made friends with chief assistant Herbert Baker; he was later to collaborate with him in the building of New Delhi.
He started work as an architect in 1889 and married in 1897. Sir Edwin Lutyens died in 1944.
Lutyens made his name designing English country houses in the arts & crafts style, working with garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.
Edwin Lutyens : Grey Walls building photos
Edwin Lutyens Architect - Key Buildings:
British Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Castle Drogo, Dartmoor, Devon, England
Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
Crypt, Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, UK
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Lindisfarne Castle remodelling, Northumbria, England
Munstead Wood, Surrey, England - Gertrude Jekyll's home
Thiepval Arch, Somme, France
Viceroy's House, (Rastrapati Bhavan), New Delhi, India
Edwin Lutyens memorial : London Cenotaph
Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, nr Exeter, Devon
1910-30
Client: Julius Drewe, merchant
Castle Drogo gardens were designed by Gertrude Jekyll, high above the River Teign
National Trust property Tel. 01647 433306
Famous Lutyens house:
Deanery Garden
for Edward Hudson – Country Life magazine proprietor
Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Munstead Wood, 2km southeast of Godalming, near London
1896
An important building as built by Lutyens for long-term collaborator Gertrude Jekyll
Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Goddards, Abinger Common, Surrey
1900
extended by Lutyens in 1910. Garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll
Goddards was given to the Lutyens Trust in 1991. Run by the Landmark Trust.
Edwin Lutyens - Key French Project:
Thiepval Arch: Memorial to the Missing, Thiepval, Somme
1932
Edwin Lutyens Architect - Other Buildings, alphabetical:
Crooksbury, England
1889
Les Bois des Moutiers, Normandy, France
1898
Middleton Park, England
1938
Midland Bank, 140 Leadenhall Street, London EC3
1931
Penheale Manor – new wing, Cornwall, England
1920
Edwin Lutyens design : Liverpool Crypt
Scottish Architecture
English Buildings
Scottish Castles
Lutyens house - Grey Walls: image © isabelle lomholt
Edwin Lutyens award - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1921
Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
elements by Edwin Lutyens
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Edwin Lutyens buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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Gertrude Jekyll: www.gertrudejekyll.co.uk
Lutyens Trust: www.lutyenstrust.org.uk
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