Simon Heffer

Edwin Lutyens: the nation’s remembrancer-in-chief

Though much admired for his domestic architecture, Lutyens is perhaps most celebrated for Whitehall’s Cenotaph and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

Edwin Lutyens’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval. [Getty Images] 
issue 18 May 2024
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