Bonnay Communal Cemetery Extension
Bonnay
Somme, France
17408
The extension beside the municipal cemetery, officially designed by Cowlishaw though approved under Lutyens’s name, comprises a raised roadside plateau with Cross of Sacrifice and gated brick‑walled entrance above four mirrored rows of graves and a hedge‑enclosed lower field, shaded by just two trees.
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Description
The IWGC has not attributed the cemetery to Lutyens, but to architect Cowlishaw. In contrast, the approval form names Lutyens as the architect responsible.[94]
The extension adjoins the municipal cemetery and has its own entrance. The cemetery consists of two parts. Alongside the road, there is a plateau with the Cross of Sacrifice and the entrance. The field has four rows of graves, of which the middle ones are a mirror image of one another. The plateau consists of a horizontal grass surface surrounded by a wall approx.imately 1 metre high with an entrance gateway between two short brick piers. The brick wall changes into a vertical brick elevation on the grave side. Steps have been cut out of the elevation at two places. The entrance lies one step lower than the road.
There are two trees in the cemetery, on the plateau and at the end of the field with graves, which is surrounded by a hedge. (Geurst, 2010, p.223)
Bibliography
Geurst, J. (2010) Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.,