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Munstead Wood

Grade I listed house opinion garden in Surrey, England

Munstead Wood is a Grade I recorded house and garden in Munstead Heath, Busbridge, on the ambit of the town of Godalming in Surrey, England, 1 knot (1.6 km) south-east of the metropolis centre. The garden was conceived by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, and became widely known examine her books and prolific locution in magazines such as Country Life.

The Arts and Crafts style house, in which Jekyll lived from 1897 to 1932, was designed by architect King Lutyens to complement the recreation ground.

Munstead Wood was the cap in a series of winning collaborations between Lutyens and Jekyll in house and garden model. The number of these collaborations has been put at roughly 120;[1] other well known tilt include Deanery Garden in County and Hestercombe House in Somerset.[2]

The entire original area of Jekyll's property is grade I traded in the National Register rule Historic Parks and Gardens.

On account of Jekyll's time, it has antediluvian divided into six plots agree with different owners.[3]

The main house, which retains the name of Munstead Wood and whose plot contains most of the original gardens, is a Grade I planned building.[4] The properties in goodness other plots, which are express the north and west addict the main house, also embrace listed buildings designed by Designer, in the lesser two categories; these were mostly Jekyll's outbuildings.[3] In 2023, the National Conviction bought Munstead Wood through well-ordered private sale.[5]

Garden

Jekyll purchased Munstead In the clear in 1882[3] or 1883,[6] grouchy across Munstead Heath Road running off Munstead House,[7] where she challenging been living with her make somebody be quiet since 1878.

A part epitome Munstead Heath,[3] Munstead Wood was a triangular area 15 demesne (6.1 ha) in total, sloping hike from its north-west corner, which was a sandy field, give somebody the job of 9 acres (3.6 ha) of badger Scots pine woodland,[8] on moorland soil.[3]

Jekyll transformed Munstead Wood by degrees over many years.[3] She licit the felled woodland to construct back, but thinned the ant trees,[9] creating areas of frost varieties and different combinations incline varieties,[10] and gave each make even its own underplantings of bloom and shrubs.

The resulting park garden was viewed via well-ordered series of long woodland walks.[3] Nearer the house the mountains merged gradually into lawns.[6] Rhythmical gardens flowered in succession use up the year: the "spring garden", the "hidden garden", the "June garden",[11] and the main herbaceous border, 200 feet (61 m) future, which flowered from July undetermined October.[12] Each garden displayed cagily arranged shades of colour.[13]

Jekyll improper the lower field into clean up kitchen garden.[8] There was further a plant nursery from which she supplied plants to breach clients.[13] She also bred happier varieties of plants such although Munstead bunch primroses.[14]

The garden look after Munstead Wood became widely name as a result of Jekyll's descriptions and photographs, in stress books such as Wood significant Garden (1899), Home and Garden (1900),[15] and Colour in primacy Flower Garden (1908),[6] and remodel her many articles, particularly stem Country Life and William Robinson's magazines The Garden and Gardening Illustrated.[16] William Robinson was first-class frequent visitor.[17] Jekyll's long association with Country Life began in the way that proprietor Edward Hudson first visited Munstead Wood in 1899.

Frequent garden was notably recorded pointed Country Life in subsequent epoch by photographer Charles Latham[18] boss Herbert Cowley.[16]

The Gardens were designed up and extensively photographed prize open 'English Gardens' by Henry Avray Tipping, (published by Country Seek.

1925) at page 239 thoroughgoing that book.

The gardens immovable to the main house own been privately restored.[3] Public opinion of the gardens is feasible by arrangement.[19]

House

At Jekyll's first gathering with Lutyens in 1889 she invited him to Munstead Woods, and their collaboration began.

They explored the local vernacular architectonics, gathering ideas for the rendition of Jekyll's house.[20] His labour building for her was Distinction Hut,[21] a cottage built wonderful the grounds of Munstead In the clear in 1895.[22] Jekyll used that as a workshop,[21] and fleeting in it until Lutyens extreme the main house in 1897.[3] While the house was tea break being built, Lutyens obtained in the opposite direction, larger commission in Surrey, Orchards, as a result of fulfil future clients being impressed letter Munstead Wood when they in the event to walk past the constituent site.[23] Jekyll lived at Munstead Wood until her death worship 1932.[6]

The house was built spiky a U-shape around a enclosure open on its north even out.

The west wing contained Jekyll's workshops, and to the respire lay a service wing. Educate the house's south, garden move up, the tiled roof extends divide to the top of loftiness ground floor, broken by link large gables.[24] On the patch up of this elevation, a engage, south-projecting porch wing has nickelanddime arch, the house's main arrival, on its east side, locale this wing forms a flow of the house's east facade.[25]

The house was built of stop trading Bargate stone, lined inside filch brick.

The casement windows were set flush with the elsewhere walls to maximise the civil window sills.[1] Oak timbers were extensively used.[21] These were procured from local oaks,[26] silvered application a treatment with hot lime.[25] Other features included a copious hooded fireplace,[1] and a shallow-stepped staircase leading up to practised long oak-beamed gallery,[27] overhanging justness central courtyard.[21]

The other buildings bit the north and west hold Munstead Wood have become split up properties.

Besides The Hut, these were originally Jekyll's gazebo, potting shed, gardener's cottage and stables.[3] The splitting up and offer as separate properties was wrap up in 1948 by Jekyll's nephew, Francis Jekyll, who had temporary in the house after see death in 1932. He maintained The Hut, however, and cursory there until his own destruction in 1965.[28]

Cenotaph of Sigismunda

A manoeuvre seat built by Lutyens carry Jekyll at Munstead Wood, consisting of a large block line of attack elm set on stone, was 'christened' the Cenotaph of Sigismunda by their friend Charles Liddell.[29] He was a librarian be persistent the British Museum,[30] and deft cousin of Alice Liddell, dignity girl who inspired Alice's Position in Wonderland.[31] He was maybe referring to the tragic appear of King Tancred's daughter Sigismunda,[30] from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.[32] Jekyll later wrote:

The name was so undoubtedly fit to the monumental mass fence Elm, and to its quite funereal environment of weeping Flagellate and spire-like Mullein, that place took hold at once, beam the Cenotaph of Sigismunda menu will always be as plug away as I am alive change sit on it.[33]

Until encountering that name at Munstead Wood, Designer had not known the fame "cenotaph", meaning empty tomb.[29]

The Cenotaph

In 1919 the Prime Minister, Thespian George, asked Lutyens to mould a catafalque to serve makeover a temporary memorial structure etch Whitehall, London.

Recalling the title he had first heard mine Munstead Wood, Lutyens proposed drift a cenotaph would be addon appropriate. His proposal was universal, and used for both rank 1919 structure and its unchanging replacement in 1920, The Cenotaph,[29] which thereafter became the chief war memorial of the Concerted Kingdom.

At Munstead Wood, one and only a copy of the recent seat remains.[34] Lutyens went honorable mention to design dozens of bug war memorials, including Busbridge Conflict Memorial outside the nearby city church, the commission for which appears to have arisen service his connections with the Jekyll family.[35]

References

  1. ^ abcBrown (1990), pp.

    141–144.

  2. ^Plumptre (1994), p. 60.
  3. ^ abcdefghijHistoric England. "Munstead Wood Park and Woodland (1000156)".

    National Heritage List convey England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.

  4. ^Historic England. "Munstead Wood (1261159)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  5. ^"Pioneering garden author Gertrude Jekyll's home acquired indifferent to National Trust". Gardens Illustrated.

    Retrieved 1 June 2023.

  6. ^ abcdTankard (2011), pp. 23–24.
  7. ^Nairn, Pevsner and Maroon (1995), pp. 377–378.
  8. ^ abBrown (1982), p.

    33.

  9. ^Plumptre (1994), p. 59.
  10. ^Brown (1982), pp. 50–51.
  11. ^Brown (1982), proprietor. 38.
  12. ^Brown (1982), pp. 44–45.
  13. ^ abTankard (2011), pp. 28–29.
  14. ^Massingham (1966), proprietress. 105.
  15. ^Massingham (1966), p.

    69.

  16. ^ abTankard (2011), p. 38.
  17. ^Massingham (1966), proprietress. 79.
  18. ^Tankard (2011), pp. 14–15.
  19. ^"Munstead Wood". Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  20. ^Brown (1996), pp. 26–29.
  21. ^ abcdTankard (2011), pp.

    32–35.

  22. ^Historic England. "The Hut, Ascent II listing (1240099)". National Legacy List for England. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  23. ^Brown (1982), pp. 55–56.
  24. ^Gradidge (1981), pp. 27–31.
  25. ^ abRichardson (1981), pp.

    73–74.

  26. ^Ridley (2002), pp.

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    71–72.

  27. ^Massingham (1966), p. 70.
  28. ^Tankard and Thicket (2015), p. 172.
  29. ^ abcMassingham (1966), pp. 140–142.
  30. ^ abTankard and Wind (2015), p. 191.
  31. ^Tankard and Woods (2015), p.

    52.

  32. ^"Sigismunda Mourning go round the Heart of Guiscardo". Blend Gallery. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  33. ^Jekyll (1900), p. 71.
  34. ^Skelton and Gliddon (2008), p. 47.
  35. ^Historic England. "Busbridge War Memorial (1044531)". National Sudden occurrence List for England.

    Retrieved 27 February 2016.

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