A LIFE IN FULL: Just an old-fashioned girl; Cemeteries, lavatories and follies of all sorts... Stories of pathos, derring-do and dastardly deeds... English architecture and English eccentricity haven't had such a charismatic champion since John Betjeman. And in the bland wilderness of television presenting, she stands out like a Gothic cathedral on a Barratt estate. ANDREW BARROW meets Lucy Lambton.(Features) From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: May 11, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It isn't easy to write about Lucy Lambton. As an unscholarly and starstruck recruit to her fanciful world, I know her better as a dazzling party performer or person-in-a-hurry than as the self-taught but highly committed architectural historian that she is. I fear I could get things wrong, incur her wrath, be deflected by trivialities and not do credit to the unswerving seriousness of her life spent "spinning through time". Lucy Lambton is sincere, combative, innocent, passionate, loyal, affectionate, spiky, forgiving, unforgiving, selfish, cunning, hard-working - in fact, almost ...