Architecture we love.
24th April 2023 - 07:49
Jason Ridgway

We love Arts & Crafts Architecture.

This is a photograph of Munstead Wood, a Grade I Listed house & garden in Surrey, one of Sir Edwin Lutyens most important houses.

The bulk of Lutyens' early work consisted of private houses in an Arts and Crafts style, strongly influenced by Tudor architecture and the vernacular styles of south-east England. This was the most innovative phase of his career. Important works of this period include Munstead Wood, Tigbourne CourtOrchards and Goddards in SurreyDeanery Garden and Folly Farm in Berkshire, Overstrand Hall in Norfolk and Le Bois des Moutiers in France.

Lutyens was also instrumental with his 20 year architectural contributions to India's capital, New Delhi after which he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead. Larger cemeteries have a Stone of Remembrance, designed by him. The best known of these monuments are the Cenotaph in WhitehallWestminster, and the Memorial to the Missing of the SommeThiepval.