Runnymede
A watercolor started at visit of legendary Runnyede by Sir Edwin Lutyens withthe Lutyens Turst America
“Restoration of Lutyens’s Runnymede Gate Pier - By Olivia Nelson, Magna Carta 2015 Projects Office In 1929, Lady Fairhaven bought the 76 hectares (188 acres) of the Runnymede meads in memory of her late husband, the former MP, Urban Broughton. She also commissioned Edwin Lutyens to design and build a set of twin memorials. These stood across the road from one another, and consisted of large kiosks and posts or “piers” with stone blocks crowned with laurel wreaths and formalised urns (at the Egham end of the Runnymede meadows) and lodges and piers (at the Windsor end). She and her sons gifted the site to the National Trust in 1931. The lodges show typical Lutyens design features — steeply angled roofs, large false chimneys and no rainwater gutters at the eves. Lutyens designed the monolithic gate piers in large Portland stones with fine joints. The overall appearance was of gate piers with a bleached white classical purity, with sharp straight edges. They are inscribed with references to the Magna Carta and Lord Fairhaven. Originally intended as houses for the wardens of Runnymede, the lodges are currently in use as a café in the South Lodge and the estate office in the lodge opposite. The A308 road, which winds between the two gate piers and passes the Runnymede meadows, has now become an extremely busy and noisy rat run to the M25.”
https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/restoration-of-lutyenss-runnymede-gate-pier/
