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This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944).

Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century"[1] and English Heritage identify him as "one of the greatest architects the country has ever produced".[2] More than 500 of his creations have been placed on the National Heritage List for England.[2]
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Hampton Court Bridge 51.40375°N 0.34240°W / 51.40375; -0.34240 (Hampton Court Bridge) | ![]() | Hampton and East Molesey | London and Surrey | 1928 | 1933 | A three-arch reinforced concrete bridge with brick facings and Portland stone balustraded parapets, abutments and niches, spanning the River Thames near to Hampton Court Palace. Designed with Surrey county engineer W. P. Robinson to reflect the style of Sir Christopher Wren's work at the Palace.[23][24] |
Runnymede Bridge 51.4375°N 0.534722°W / 51.4375; -0.534722 (Runnymede Bridge) | Egham and Staines-upon-Thames | Surrey | 1939 | 1961 | Encased-steel-arch bridge over the River Thames, designed by 1939 to carry the A30 road; but not constructed for 15-years after Lutyens' death, World War II having intervened. Design details – the use of brick-facing and Portland stone, albeit without niches – follow the style of the Hampton Court Bridge.[25] | |
Silver Street Bridge 52.2019°N 0.1154°E / 52.2019; 0.1154 (Silver Street Bridge) | ![]() | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | 1932 | 1959 | Over the River Cam in central Cambridge[26] |
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Abinger Common War Memorial 51.20146°N 0.40552°W / 51.20146; -0.40552 (Abinger Common War Memorial) | ![]() | Abinger Common | Surrey | 1920, 1949 | Lutyens' War Cross design; the original 1920 erection was destroyed by bombing in 1944, and a replacement cross erected in 1949.[34][35] | |
Arch of Remembrance 52.62343°N 1.12156°W / 52.62343; -1.12156 (The Arch of Remembrance) | ![]() | Leicester | Leicestershire | 1919 | 1925 | A monumental tetrapylon quadrifrons triumphal arch in a railed enclosure; Lutyens was selected as architect by the War memorial Committee.[36] |
Ashwell War Memorial 52.04316°N 0.14595°W / 52.04316; -0.14595 (Ashwell War Memorial) | ![]() | Ashwell | Hertfordshire | 1919 | 1922 | Lutyens' War Cross design, the commission offered to a shortlist of three providers, Lutyens being selected.[37] |
British Thomson-Houston Company War Memorial 52.38277°N 1.25509°W / 52.38277; -1.25509 (British Thomson-Houston War Memorial) | ![]() | Rugby | Warwickshire | 1921 | 1921 | Lutyens' War Cross design, commissioned by the British Thomson-Houston Company to honour its employee war-dead.[38] |
Busbridge War Memorial 51.17751°N 0.60210°W / 51.17751; -0.60210 (Busbridge War Memorial) |
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Busbridge | Surrey | 1922 | Lutyens connection to Busbridge was with Gertrude Jekyll, for whom he designed Munstead Wood on the outskirts of the village. The memorial is of Lutyens' War Cross design. | |
The Cenotaph 51.50267°N 0.12609°W / 51.50267; -0.12609 (The Cenotaph, Whitewhall) | ![]() | Whitehall | London | 1919 | 1920 | The site of the British annual National Service of Remembrance. Originally a wood-and-plaster structure designed by Lutyens and erected in 1919, later replaced by a replica in Portland stone and taking the form of a pylon rising in a series of set-backs to an empty tomb (cenotaph) on its summit. The model for cenotaphs around the world. |
Civil Service Rifles War Memorial 51.51039°N 0.11761°W / 51.51039; -0.11761 (Civil Service Rifles War Memorial) |
Central London | London | 1924 | Single rectangular column of Portland stone, decorated with classical mouldings, standing approximately 4.9 metres (16 feet) tall and surmounted by a cornice, plinth and sculpture of an urn; located on the Thames-side of Somerset House. | ||
Devon County War Memorial 50.72265°N 3.53151°W / 50.72265; -3.53151 (Devon County War Memorial) |
Exeter | Devon | 1921 | 30-foot (9.1-metre) granite cross, quarried from Haytor on Dartmoor, and hewn from a single stone—the largest Lutyens was able to acquire; situated outside and in line with the central axis of Exeter Cathedral. This is one of the 15 Lutyens War Cross designs. | ||
Edward and Tom Thynne headstones 50.8729°N 0.423°W / 50.8729; -0.423 (Edward and Tom Thynne headstones) |
Findon | West Sussex | 1925 | Headstone marking Edward Thynne grave at the Muntham Court Estate burial ground. The same design was used for Edward‘s brother Tom.[39] | ||
Fordham War Memorial 52.31147°N 0.39055°E / 52.31147; 0.39055 (Fordham War Memorial) |
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Fordham | Cambridgeshire | 1921 | Doric column in Portland stone surmounted by a bronze statue of Saint George, sculpted by Sir George Frampton, who also contributed the sculpture for Hove War Memorial. | |
Francis McLaren headboard 51.17693°N 0.60139°W / 51.17693; -0.60139 (Francis McLaren headboard) |
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Busbridge | Surrey | Carved oak headboard marking the grave of Francis McLaren, son-in-law of Agnes Jekyll.[40] | ||
Gerrards Cross Memorial Building 51.58358°N 0.55169°W / 51.58358; -0.55169 (Gerrards Cross Memorial Building) |
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Gerrards Cross | Buckinghamshire | 1922 | Single story community-centre, with a memorial plaque sheltered beneath a portico supported by four doric columns | |
Hannen Columbarium 51.49948°N 0.87339°W / 51.49948; -0.87339 (Hannen Columbarium) | ![]() | Wargrave | Berkshire | 1905 | 1907 | Columbarium combining Byzantine Revival with Arts and Crafts and with classical architectural lines, in the form of a 12 feet (3.7 m) square building of red-brick, red-tile, glass-tile and stonework.[41][42] Lutyen's earliest mausoleum design, recognised as an embodyment of the point at which he fully incorporated classical architecture in his designs.[43] |
Hartburn War Memorial 55.16891°N 1.86176°W / 55.16891; -1.86176 (Hartburn War Memorial) | ![]() | Hartburn | Northumberland | 1921 | Lutyens' War Cross design, commissioned by Mr and Mrs Straker of nearby Angerton Hall, the gardens of which Lutyens renovated with Gertrude Jekyll in 1904.[44] | |
Holy Island War Memorial 55.66828°N 1.80065°W / 55.66828; -1.80065 (Holy Island War Memorial) | ![]() | Lindisfarne | Northumberland | 1922 | A grade II* listed First World War memorial in local pink ashlar stone, recognised as part of a "national collection" of Lutyens memorials. One of 15 War Cross designs by Lutyens.[45][46] | |
Hove War Memorial 50.82683°N 0.16867°W / 50.82683; -0.16867 (Hove War Memorial) |
Hove | Sussex | 1921 | Bronze statue of Saint George holding a sword by the blade below the hilt, sculpted by Sir George Frampton, standing on a grey granite Doric column. Frampton was also the sculptor for Fordham War Memorial | ||
Jekyll family memorial 51.17694°N 0.60135°W / 51.17694; -0.60135 (Jekyll family memorial) |
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Busbridge | Surrey | Gravestones and memorial commemorating Gertrude Jekyll, Agnes Jekyll and Herbert Jekyll.[47] | ||
King's Somborne War Memorial 51.07735°N 1.48727°W / 51.07735; -1.48727 (King's Somborne War Memorial) |
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King's Somborne | Hampshire | 1922 | Lutyens' War Cross design; his connection with the village was Herbert Johnson, for whom he designed Marshcourt[48] | |
Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial 53.59226°N 2.29872°W / 53.59226; -2.29872 (Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial) |
Bury | Greater Manchester | 1922 | Single tall, tapering obelisk in Portland stone (similar to the pair on Lutyens' Northampton War Memorial) standing on a square base with a cornice, below which is a carved frieze on a pedestal of two rectangular blocks, mounted on a rectangular plinth and at the very bottom are two shallow circular steps. | ||
Leeds Rifles War Memorial 53.79532°N 1.53543°W / 53.79532; -1.53543 (Leeds Rifles War Memorial) |
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Leeds | West Yorkshire | 1921 | Small version of the Lutyens' War Cross, set into the church wall of Leeds Minster and facing out onto Kirkgate, in Portland stone. The memorial incorporates a stone bench which doubles as a platform for wreaths. | |
Lower Swell War Memorial 51.92801°N 1.74871°W / 51.92801; -1.74871 (Lower Swell War Memorial) | ![]() | Lower Swell | Gloucestershire | 1921 | Sculptured urn design. Lutyens' connection with the village was with Mark Fenwick, for whom Lutyens renovated the nearby Abbotswood house.[49] | |
Manchester Cenotaph 53.47870°N 2.24295°W / 53.47870; -2.24295 (Manchester Cenotaph) |
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Manchester | Greater Manchester | 1922 | 1924 | Cenotaph, flanked by twin obelisks, and a Stone of Remembrance, all in Portland stone on a raised coved platform; reminiscent of his earlier cenotaph in Southampton |
Mells War Memorial 51.24090°N 2.38933°W / 51.24090; -2.38933 (Mells War Memorial) |
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Mells | Somerset | 1920 | Tuscan column of Purbeck Marble on which stands a statue of Saint George slaying a dragon. The memorial is one of many buildings and structures by Lutyens in the village by Lutyens for the Horner and Asquith families. | |
The Merchant Navy War Memorial, First World War section 51.50957°N 0.07763°W / 51.50957; -0.07763 (Tower Hill Memorial) |
Tower Hill | London | 1928 | Lutyens designed a World War I memorial[50] taking the form of a Doric temple, raised on a platform slightly above street level, oriented east to west and situated in Trinity Square Gardens on Tower Hill, within sight of the Tower of London.[51] The memorial's Second World War section[52] designed by Edward Maufe was constructed to adjoin and complement Lutyens design.[53] | ||
Midland Railway War Memorial 52.91550°N 1.46490°W / 52.91550; -1.46490 (Midland Railway War Memorial) |
Derby | Derbyshire | 1921 | 10-metre (33-foot) high cenotaph in the centre of a 2-metre (6.6-foot) screen wall forming rectangular alcoves on each side. At the top of the cenotaph is a recumbent effigy of an unknown soldier, partially covered by his greatcoat and with his helmet and bayonet at his feet.[54][55][56] | ||
Miserden War Memorial 51.77857°N 2.09385°W / 51.77857; -2.09385 (Miserdon War Memorial) |
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Miserden, | Gloucestershire | 1920 | Typical Lutyens War Cross with a tapering shaft and short arms, of limestone construction.[57] | |
Muncaster War Memorial 54.35760°N 3.40104°W / 54.35760; -3.40104 (Muncaster War Memorial) | ![]() | Muncaster | Cumbria | 1922 | Lutyens' War Cross design; his connection with the village was Sir John Ramsden, for whom he consulted on Muncaster Castle[58] | |
North Eastern Railway War Memorial 53.95868°N 1.08979°W / 53.95868; -1.08979 (North East Railway War Memorial) |
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York | North Yorkshire | 1924 | Single, 30-foot (9-metre) obelisk rising from a three-tiered pedestal set into the rear portion of a three-sided screen wall.[59] | |
Northampton War Memorial 52.23729°N 0.89574°W / 52.23729; -0.89574 (Northampton War Memorial) |
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Northampton | Northamptonshire | 1926 | A Stone of Remembrance flanked by tall twin obelisks, each adorned with a pair of painted stone flags.[60] | |
Norwich War Memorial 52.62858°N 1.29234°E / 52.62858; 1.29234 (Norwich War Memorial) |
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Norwich | Norfolk | 1927 | The memorial is of Portland stone construction, and comprises a low screen wall on top of which is a cenotaph topped with a carved wreath; it is the last of eight cenotaphs by Lutyens.[61] | |
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial 51.73233°N 1.22830°W / 51.73233; -1.22830 (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial) |
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Oxford | Oxfordshire | 1923 | The memorial consists of a single obelisk mounted on a moulded pedestal and a plain square base, approached by three shallow steps.[62] | |
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph 51.27715°N 0.52037°E / 51.27715; 0.52037 (Norwich War Memorial) |
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Maidstone | Kent | 1921 | A two-thirds scale replica of Whitehall's cenotaph and unadorned by flags.[63] | |
Rolvenden War Memorial 51.05085°N 0.63060°E / 51.05085; 0.63060 (Rolvenden War Memorial) | ![]() | Rolvenden | Kent | 1922 | Unique amongst Lutyens' cross designs, being slender and sparse compared with his conventional War Cross designs; his connection with the village was Harold Tennant for whom he had designed the nearby Great Maytham Hall[64] | |
Rochdale Cenotaph 53.61628°N 2.15971°W / 53.61628; -2.15971 (Rochdale Cenotaph) |
Rochdale | Greater Manchester | 1922 | Comprising two elements: a 10-metre (33 ft) pylon and a Stone of Remembrance formed from light grey Cornish granite which are raised on a platform (stylobate) of three steps.[65][66] | ||
Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial 51.45826°N 1.00439°W / 51.45826; -1.00439 (Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial) |
Reading | Berkshire | 1921 | Customary Lutyens' cenotaph memorial, standing on a base of three steps and in Portland stone; at the very top of the structure is an urn.[67] | ||
Royal Naval Division War Memorial 51.50535°N 0.12908°W / 51.50535; -0.12908 (Royal Naval Division War Memorial) |
Whitehall | London | 1925 | An obelisk rising from a circular bowl, supported by a moulded square base which connects to a second, shallower bowl and then to a large square plinth.[68][69] | ||
Sandhurst War Memorial 51.02682°N 0.56318°E / 51.02682; 0.56318 (Sandhurst War Memorial) | ![]() | Sandhurst | Kent | 1923 | A Lutyens' War Cross design; Lutyens connection with the village was a local resident, James Wilson[70] | |
Southampton Cenotaph 50.90965°N 1.40515°W / 50.90965; -1.40515 (Southampton Cenotaph) |
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Southampton | Hampshire | 1920 | The design is a pylon surmounted by a sarcophagus bearing a recumbent effigy of a fallen soldier—raised on five stone steps; in front of the cenotaph is a Stone of Remembrance raised on two further steps.[71] | |
South African War Memorial 51.45690°N 0.28662°W / 51.45690; -0.28662 (South Africa War Memorial) |
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Richmond | Surrey | 1921 | A cenotaph, constructed in coarse granite to a design modelled on the Whitehall cenotaph. Unusually among Lutyens' memorials, it has a triangular top. It has a flared base and sits on a base of two stone steps, in contrast to the three on which most of Lutyens' memorials stand.[72] | |
Southend-on-Sea War Memorial 51.53423°N 0.70495°E / 51.53423; 0.70495 (Southend-on-Sea War Memorial) |
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Southend-on-Sea | Essex | 1921 | Lutyens first proposed a cenotaph for Southend-on-Sea, but changed his plans to deliver a tapering Portland stone obelisk rising to approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, sitting on a square base with a moulded cornice above a rectangular pedestal of six unequal-sized stones, all similar in form to his contemporaneous North Eastern Railway War Memorial. | |
Spalding War Memorial 52.78353°N 0.14927°W / 52.78353; -0.14927 (Spalding War Memorial) |
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Spalding | Lincolnshire | 1922 | Spalding's memorial takes the form of a brick pavilion in front of which is a 12 feet (3.7 metres) long Stone of Remembrance; both are situated at the head of a long reflecting pool, which incorporates the remains of an 18th-century canal. Lutyens' commission came from Barbara Freyberg, who lost her husband in the Great War, and who was a niece of Lutyens' garden-designer colleague and client Gertrude Jekyll. | |
Stockbridge War Memorial 51.11341°N 1.48763°W / 51.11341; -1.48763 (Stockbridge War Memorial) | Stockbridge | Hampshire | 1922 | Lutyens' War Cross design; his connection with the village (as with King's Somborne) was Herbert Johnson, for whom he designed Marshcourt[73] | ||
Wargrave War Memorial 51.49926°N 0.87210°W / 51.49926; -0.87210 (Wargrave War Memorial) | ![]() | Wargrave | Berkshire | 1922 | Lutyens' War Cross design, commissioned by a 1919 public meeting, possibly influenced by Lutyens' connections with the Hannon family for whom he also designed the Hannen Columbarium[74] | |
Welch Regiment War Memorial 51.49831°N 3.18419°W / 51.49831; -3.18419 (Welsh Regiment War Memorial) |
Cardiff | South Glamorgan | 1924 | Originally planned as a memorial to be erected near Gheluvelt on the Western Front in Belgium, Lutyens' design for a cenotaph in Portland stone standing on a stepped plinth and a square base was instead erected at Maindy Barracks in Cardiff. | ||
York City War Memorial 53.95993°N 1.08952°W / 53.95993; -1.08952 (York City War Memorial) |
York | North Yorkshire | 1925 | Lozenge-shaped shafted cross with short, chamfered arms. One of the fifteen War Cross designs. Lutyens' work extends to the entrance gates and supporting piers. The memorial project proved controversial prior to and throughout Lutyens' involvement: whether the memorial should be utilitarian or monumental; and whether the proposed monument and its situation would be in keeping with York architecture.[75] |
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Lutyens was invited, with others, in 1912 to advise the Government of India on planning for a proposed new centre of government to be built in Delhi and named New Delhi. He became the project's leading architect, giving rise to Lutyens' Delhi, encompassing the street plan and key government buildings, and his name is lent to the Lutyens Bungalow Zone of domestic properties for government officers (albeit Lutyens was directly responsible for the design of only four of the houses). A number of other architects, notably Herbert Baker, were responsible for the city's other key buildings.
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Howth Castle 53.3863°N 6.079°W / 53.3863; -6.079 (Howth Castle) | ![]() | Howth | Fingal | 1910 | Renovation and extension to a fourteenth-century castle[78] | |
Irish National War Memorial Gardens 53.344°N 6.317°W / 53.344; -6.317 (Irish National War Memorial Gardens) | Islandbridge | County Dublin | 1930 | 1940 | The design involved a bridge over the railway at the top of the site, a memorial cross, a flat grassed area with the stone at the centre and an (unbuilt) bridge over the River Liffey at the bottom of the site.[79] | |
Lambay Castle 53.3863°N 6.079°W / 53.3863; -6.079 (Lambay Castle) | ![]() | Lambay Island | County Dublin | 1905 | 1912 | The works consisted of the renovation of the old castle, erecting residential wing, enclosing wall, war memorial, workers village, family houses, Kings tennis court, reconfiguration of the church etc. |
Tranarossan House 55.2292°N 7.8037°W / 55.2292; -7.8037 (Tranarossan House) | ![]() | near Downings | County Donegal | - | Now Trá na Rosann youth hostel[80][81] | |
Costelloe Lodge 53.2787°N 9.5368°W / 53.2787; -9.5368 (Costelloe Lodge) | – | Casla (Costelloe) | County Galway | – | – | Built for J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, much-criticised survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.[82] |
Heywood House Gardens 52.8843°N 7.3008°W / 52.8843; -7.3008 (Heywood House Gardens) | ![]() | Ballinakill | County Laois | – | – | New gardens for an existing house for Sir Hutcheson Poë[83] |
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British School at Rome 41.918772°N 12.481386°E / 41.918772; 12.481386 (British School at Rome) |
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Rome | 1912 | 1916 | Built on the site of the British Pavilion at the 1911 International Exhibition of Art to provide a permanent residential research institute.[85] The design appears to be an almost complete replica of the upper floor of the front facade of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. |
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Anglo-Boer War Memorial 26.164°S 28.041°E / -26.164; 28.041 (Anglo-Boer War Memorial) | ![]() | Johannesburg | 1910 | 1914 | Originally called the Rand Regiments Memorial, this arch was erected in honour of the British soldiers who fell in the second Anglo-Boer War. |
Johannesburg Art Gallery 26.197039°S 28.047104°E / -26.197039; 28.047104 (Johannesburg Art Gallery) | ![]() | Johannesburg | 1910 | 1915 | An Art Gallery in Johannesburg designed by Edwin Lutyens with Robert Howden working as supervising architect. It is the largest art gallery in South Africa. |
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British Ambassador's residence 38.92109°N 77.06300°W / 38.92109; -77.06300 (British Ambassador's residence) | ![]() | Northwest Washington | District of Columbia | 1925 | 1928 | An example of Queen Anne architecture, the embassy residence was the only building Lutyens designed in North America. |
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 53.40498°N 2.96850°W / 53.40498; -2.96850 (Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral) | ![]() | Liverpool | UK | 1930 | 1958 | Lutyens was commissioned to design a new Cathedral, but rising costs caused the abandonment of the scheme; his design for the crypt was realised and completed in 1958.[86] |
Liffey Art Gallery | Dublin | Ireland | Sir Hugh Lane | Intended to house the city Art gallery, but the City Councillors did not want to obstruct the view up the river. |
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