St. John’s Institute, Tufton Street (now Church Union Faith House)
Lutyens’s 1905 parish hall for St John’s, is a modest red‑brick Neo‑Georgian/“Wrennaissance” block with three ground‑floor arches, a regular upper façade and dormers, enclosing a church‑like aisled interior with a groin‑vaulted central space that anticipates his later London classicism.
Please log in to view the full description, bibliography, and record details.
Description
These designs show Lutyens experimenting with the ‘Wrennaissance’ style for a London building before the Country Life Design. (Amery et al., 1981, cat no.163)
At the n end, within the angle made by Church House (see p. 201), No. 7 (Faith House), the former Parish Hall of St John Smith Square, little-known Lutyens of 1905. It shows him dipping a toe in Neo-Georgian or perhaps Neo-Serlian waters. Red brick, three round-headed lower openings, five windows above, and five dormers on a shallow pantiled roof. Aisled, churchlike interior with a groin-vaulted central vessel. (Bradley & Pevsner, 2003, p.720)
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.
Bradley S & Pevsner N (2003) LONDON 6: WESTMINSTER. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
, Weaver, L. (1913) Houses and Gardens by E L Lutyens. London: Country Life.
