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Byzantium in Berkshire: fresh information on Sir Edwin Lutyens's first mausoleum, the Hannen columbarium at St Mary, Wargrave, Berkshire, is provided by correspondence published here for the first time by Oliver Bradbury. This small masterpiece shows Lutyens combining byzantine, classical and Arts and Crafts influences.

From: Apollo  |  Date: 4/1/2005  |  Author: Bradbury, Oliver

In a corner of the obscure Berkshire churchyard of St Mary, Wargrave, lies the earliest mausoleum or, more precisely, columbarium by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Although known to Lutyens scholars, it has never received much attention from them. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to unpublished correspondence in the Oxfordshire Record Office relating to this commission. (1)

These letters are contained in an envelope of twenty-one documents relating to the application for a ...

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