Westminster Abbey
Lutyens’s late preliminary designs for a Gothic-style addition to Westminster Abbey proposed a square building with a low central octagonal spire, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1943 but never built.
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Description
Lutyens prepared these preliminary designs for a Gothic style addition to Westminster Abbey very late in his life. He planned a square building with a low central octagonal spire. The designs were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1943. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no.283)
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.
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