Lutyens and the Hampstead Garden Suburb.

An Exploration of Lutyens's church designs within the masterplan for the Central Square.
Timothy Brittain-Caitlin, Duncan Stroik
Host & Moderator: Martin Lutyens
St. Jude-on-the-Hill and the Free Church are part of the ensemble of buildings designed by Edwin Lutyens to complete his vision for the Central Square of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Lutyens’s plan for the formal center of the development placed three linked squares around the Central Square, with each linked square anchored by a major public building. St Jude, on the South Square, faces the Free Church, on the North Square, with the Institute anchoring the east side.
Speakers:
Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Course Leader, MSt Architecture Apprenticeship Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Timothy Brittain-Catlin leads the graduate architecture apprenticeship program at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2020 he published The Edwardians and their Houses: the New Life of Old England, a fresh look at the architecture of the early twentieth century. This book reviews many of the ideas that Lutyens and his contemporaries introduced into the new houses of the period - especially the reintroduction of historical elements drawn from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has been a regular contributor to the World of Interiors for more than 30 years and has written for many other magazines. After training as an architect he worked on both the restoration and remodelling of historic buildings & masterplanning; in 2004 he completed a doctorate on the domestic architecture of A.W.N. Pugin under the supervision of Andrew Saint at Cambridge. He is a member of Historic England’s national Advisory Committee and was until recently deputy chair of the Twentieth Century Society.
Duncan Stroik
Duncan Stroik’s architectural practice grows out of a commitment to the principles of classical architecture and urbanism. Stroik’s education and career have closely paralleled the evolution of the international classical movement, and his work has been instrumental in the new renaissance of sacred architecture. Stroik received his architectural education from the University of Virginia and Yale University. In 1990, Stroik was invited to help form and implement a new curriculum in classical architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Stroik’s design work and essays on architecture have been featured widely in print and his work has also been featured on television. He is a frequent lecturer on the principles of traditional architecture and Catholic church design. Stroik’s involvement in the new renaissance of sacred architecture has led to the formation of the Society for Catholic Liturgy and the journal Sacred Architecture, of which he is editor.
Presented by Martin Lutyens and Robin Prater
Jul 8 2021 (c)

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The two questions at the end of the presentation: Henrietta Barnett does not appear in the 'eminent women' mural in the dome. All those included were deceased (though some quite recently). See www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/31-july/features/features/campaign-from-on-high-at-st-jude-s
The inverted cross is a (rare) symbol of St Jude who according to some legend was hung upside down on a cross after he had been martyred (by clubbing or the sword).
More about St Jude's here : www.explorechurches.org/sites/default/files/submitted-churches/St%20Jude%27s%20Guide%20Book%202016.pdf