Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Communal Cemetery
This Le Touquet cemetery, serving a military hospital throughout the war, is marked architecturally by Lutyens‑like entrance treatment and stair, where four large yews frame twin circular terraces at the head of the steps, echoing his garden work at Marsh Court in the use of circular forms to negotiate level changes.
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Description
The cemetery served as a military hospital in Le Touquet during almost the entire war. The design consists primarily of the entrance to the cemetery and the staircase to the two higher fields adjoining the entrance. The most conspicuous feature is the four large yew trees that mark the entrance and the two round plateaux at the top of the stairs. These call to mind the many garden designs by Lutyens, such as the garden of Marsh Court for instance, in which he makes repeated use of the circle form in order to solve changes of angle. In his first designs, he also applied millstones that he incorporated into terraces. (Geurst, 2010, p.354)
Bibliography
Geurst, J. (2010) Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.
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