Place    From 1907 

Hampstead Garden Suburb

Categories: Architecture, Property

Henrietta Barnett formed a board of trustees to build this urban utopia following strict social principles: all classes accommodated, places of education provided, places for the handicapped and elderly, gardens with hedges, not walls, noise limited, shops etc. kept to the boundary and sales of alcohol prohibited. She chose Raymond Unwin to plan the estate and Edwin Lutyens as consulting architect.
On the picture source website the map is interactive, but visit external site for everything you need about the suburb. It is here we learn that "Lutyens' sketch for the landscaping was, as Dame Henrietta recalls, dashed off in a letter from Marseilles when he was en route for Delhi. At the western end of the Avenue is Lutyens' memorial to the Dame herself, a kind of classical wellhead." It is rumoured that Lutyens found Dame Henrietta a difficult client, and that he saw the Delhi commission as an escape from HGS. But perhaps he enjoyed designing her memorial.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Hampstead Garden Suburb

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First house tree

October 2nd 1907. This tree was planted by Mrs Barnett on the occasion of th...

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First two houses on HGS

On 2 May 1907 Henrietta Barnett cut the first sod here. The ceremony involve...

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Hampstead Garden Suburb Jubilee

This stone was unveiled by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Margaret on 2nd J...

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Henrietta Barnett monument

Unveiled 17 July 1937.

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Henrietta Barnett plaque

Prior to the death of her husband in 1913, Dame Henrietta Barnett had been li...

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Kilburn Wells

Kilburn Wells

In 1714, a well of 'chalybeate waters' (water impregnated with iron) was discovered near the Bell Inn, Kilburn. Gardens and a 'great room' were opened in an attempt to compete with the nearby Hamps...

Place, Architecture, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Walter Maxted Epps, FRIBA

Walter Maxted Epps, FRIBA

Both the booklets Changing Times: The Broadway, Bexleyheath, 1812-1912 and Changing Times: 100 years of the Broadway, Bexleyheath, 1912-2012 inform us that Epps was a local resident. As well as des...

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
William Holford, Baron Holford

William Holford, Baron Holford

Architect and town planner. Born South Africa. Designed a rejected plan for pedestrians to be raised on walkways around Piccadilly Circus, and a much-loathed Paternoster Square which was, partly, b...

Person, Architecture, South Africa

1 memorial
Gordon and Viner

Gordon and Viner

Architects. We can find no other building by this pair, nor anything about them.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Edward A. Gruning

Edward A. Gruning

Architect. Designed the German Gymnasium at King's Cross, 1864-5. Son-in-law of Dr Louis Cappel, the pastor of St George in the East, Cannon Street Road, E1. When the associated school (established...

Person, Architecture, Germany

1 memorial