County Hall
Lutyens’s unsuccessful final-stage design for the London County Council building competition was the only scheme to draw directly on the architecture of Inigo Jones and Wren, submitted alongside seven other leading architects before the project was awarded instead to outsider Ralph Knott.
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Description
Lutyens was one of eight leading architects invited by the L.C.C. to submit designs for the final competition, following the original open competition in which ninety-nine designs were received. The other seven were John Belcher, William Flockhart, Ernest George, Henry T. Hare, T.G. Jackson, E.W. Mountford, and Charles Nicholson and Henry Corlette. The assessors were Norman Shaw, Aston Webb and W.E. Riley. Lutyens’s was the only design to reflect the architecture of Inigo Jones and Wren for such a prominent London site. In the end an outsider, Ralph Knott, won. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no. 179)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain., Hussey, C. (1984) The LIfe of Sir Edwin Lutjens. Antique Collectors Club.
