Newsletters

A Tribute to John Entwisle

News of the sad passing of John Entwisle, Reuters's corporate historian from 1985 until 2017.
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A Tribute to Gavin Stamp (1948-2017)

The architectural conservation world has lost one of its doughtiest defenders with the passing of Gavin Stamp, who died last December [2017].
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New Book - Lest We Forget - By David Hearn

Today, over 100 years later, we still build memorials to those who gave their lives, thereby demonstrating the importance of giving tangible form to intangible grief.
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Castle Drogo's Hydroelectric Installation

With the establishment of the National Trust’s Renewable Energy Investment programme, reinstating the historic hydroelectricity scheme became viable.
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Announcing The Lutyens Trust America

The United States has long fostered an appreciation of Edwin Lutyens's architecture.
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Lutyens Houses on the Market

From the Winter 2017 Edition - includes Fishers Hill, The Hoo and The Grange (Plaxtol).
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Study Tour to India: A Marathon of Marvels

Following a zigzag route from Kolkata to Delhi, this took in many sites and cities, tracing the development of civic architecture and much else on the way.
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Both Sir Robert Lorimer and Lutyens were engaged at different times by Mrs Eustace Smith, widow of a shipping magnate, to transform four cottages into the large residence which became Whalton Manor.
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New Book Sir Edwin Lutyens - The Arts & Crafts Houses

Cole is a considerable talent, not least for his photography — one of the best examples of its kind I have seen in a book of this sort.
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The Builders of Lutyens's Thiepval Memorial

In the village of Thiepval, the town hall has a plaque indicating that the firm Finney and Broadhurst built it in 1931 and was also responsible for the village church.
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Invitation from the CWGC to Visit Villers-Bretonneux & Thiepval

We then entered the memorial itself, looking at its vast subterranean spaces before climbing a series of spiral staircases to the cavernous room above the main arch, then on up to the roof with its panoramic view of the battlefield.
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Edwin Lutyens a Major Presence at Top Auction Houses

It’s quite rare for original Lutyens pieces to come to auction, so the success of these sales attests to his enduring popularity as a designer of furniture and lighting.
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Lutyens's Houses on the Market

From the Summer 2017 Edition -includes The Corner, Thursley and Legh Manor, Cuckfield
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Tour of Stuart Martin's Three New Lutyens-Inspired Houses in Devon

Some of the Lutyens-inspired work was so subtle that the connections with his work had to be pointed out. But there was much evident joy in the creative use of taking Lutyens as a starting point for the buildings rather than copying his work.
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Visits to Herbert Baker's own House, Owletts and to his Project Chilham Castle

The dining room emphasised the wit readers would be familiar with from Lutyens, but maybe not so much from Baker.
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A Walking Tour of Westminster

In the early 1900s, MPs were rediscovering the area’s 18th-century houses, so we saw three which Lutyens had renovated and modernised for people associated with Parliament.
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Current Newsletter, Summer 2020