Lutyens and the Great War

by Tim Skelton and Gerald GliddonForeword by Gavin Stamp

• ISBN13: 9780711228788
• ISBN10: 0711228787
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

Although Sir Edwin Lutyens is commonly celebrated for his large houses for wealthy clients, much of his work was designed in connection with the First World War and remains relatively unknown and unpublished. Lutyens was the Chief Architect for the then Imperial War Graves Commission and his work, comprising war memorials, war cemeteries on the Western Front and individual graves and memorials, was largely instrumental in setting the standards for the British and Commonwealth war cemeteries that are admired by all those who visit them. In addition to the Cenotaph in Whitehall and the nation's largest war memorial - the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval, Lutyens created a further fifty-five memorials in Britain and abroad.The beautiful war memorial at Sapldin has never appeared in any book on the architect's work and the cemeteries at Monchy and Croisilles in Frances barely make it into the pages of battlefield guides, let alone into books about architecture. Gerald Gliddon and Timothy John Skelton of the Lutyens Trust describe the variety of these moving works, explaining the stories behind them.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
Tyringham	p. 12
The Architect Established	p. 16
The War Stone	p. 22
Southampton and London: A Tale of Two Cenotaphs	p. 36
Spalding	p. 48
Civic Pride	p. 58
Village Voices	p. 80
Soldiers, Sailors, Scholars and Company Men	p. 88
Meanwhile Abroad	p. 98
Permanent Sepulture	p. 106
Known Unto God	p. 130
The Unbuilts	p. 146
Their Name Liveth For Evermore	p. 152
Endgame	p. 160
L'Envoi	p. 164
War Memorials	p. 166
Western Front Cemeteries and Memorials to the Missing	p. 181
Private Memorials	p. 216
Notes	p. 218
Bibliography	p. 220
Index	p. 221
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