68-753: The Midland Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Derby in the East Midlands of England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1921. The memorial commemorates employees of the Midland Railway who died while serving in the armed forces during the First World War . The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and
136-695: A Stone of Remembrance , designed by him. The best known of these monuments are The Cenotaph in Whitehall , Westminster , and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme , Thiepval . The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919. Lloyd George proposed a catafalque , a low empty platform, but it
204-491: A bridge over the River Liffey (unbuilt) and two tiered sunken gardens; Heywood House Gardens , County Laois (open to the public), consisting of a hedge garden, lawns, tiered sunken garden and a belvedere; extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle, Lambay Island , near Dublin, consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex, upgraded cottages and stores near
272-562: A common form of war memorial in cities and large towns across Britain and the empire. Lutyens designed several others himself, including the Midland Railway's. They are among the most ambitious of his war memorial designs. Most are based heavily on Whitehall's, though with considerable variation between them. The memorial stands on Midland Road, within sight of Midland station and adjacent to the Midland Hotel, encroaching onto
340-731: A member of the newly created Royal Fine Art Commission , a position he held until his death. While work continued in New Delhi, Lutyens received other commissions including several commercial buildings in London and the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, D.C. . In 1924 he completed the supervision of the construction of what is perhaps his most popular design: Queen Mary's Dolls' House . This four-storey Palladian villa
408-659: A more conventional Classicism , a change of direction which had a profound influence on wider British architectural practice. His commissions were of a varied nature from private houses to two churches for the new Hampstead Garden Suburb in London to Julius Drewe 's Castle Drogo near Drewsteignton in Devon and on to his contributions to India's new imperial capital , New Delhi (where he worked as chief architect with Herbert Baker and others). Here he added elements of local architectural styles to his classicism, and based his urbanisation scheme on Mughal water gardens. He also designed
476-476: A number of projects, including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London, at 8 Tavistock Street . One of his assistants in the 1890s was Maxwell Ayrton . By the turn of the century, Lutyens was recognised as one of architecture's coming men. In his major study of English domestic buildings, Das englische Haus , published in 1904, Hermann Muthesius wrote of Lutyens, "He
544-625: A railway centre and the Midland's workshops and offices closed, it was joined by three other plaques listing the names of First World War casualties from individual sites. In the aftermath of the war and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of memorials were built across Britain. Amongst the most prominent designers of memorials was Sir Edwin Lutyens , described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". Lutyens established his reputation designing country houses for wealthy clients and later built much of New Delhi , but
612-635: A soldier and painter. His sister, Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens (1868–1951), wrote novels under her married name of Mrs George Wemyss. He grew up in Thursley , Surrey. He was named after a friend of his father, the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer . Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art , London, from 1885 to 1887. After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice. It
680-565: Is The Salutation , a house in Sandwich, Kent, England. Built in 1911–1912 with a 3.7-acre (1.5 ha) garden, it was commissioned by Henry Farrer , one of three sons of Sir William Farrer . Lutyens heavily influenced Sigurd Frosterus when he designed Vanajanlinna Manor in Finland . He was knighted in 1918 and elected a Royal Academician in March 1920. In 1924, he was appointed
748-590: Is a sculpture of a lion's head at each of the four corners. Further down is a carving of the Midland Railway's coat of arms on two sides, which is enclosed in a laurel wreath . The front of the cenotaph (facing Midland Road) is inscribed: TO THE BRAVE MEN OF THE MIDLAND RAILWAY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR . The two sides are inscribed with the dates of the First World War in Roman numerals : MCMXIV † XIX (1914–19). Although generally described as such,
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#1732782559346816-887: Is a young man who has come increasingly to the forefront of domestic architects and who may soon become the accepted leader among English builders of houses". The bulk of Lutyens's early work consisted of private houses in an Arts and Crafts style, strongly influenced by Tudor architecture and the vernacular styles of south-east England. This was the most innovative phase of his career. Important works of this period include Munstead Wood, Tigbourne Court , Orchards and Goddards in Surrey , Deanery Garden and Folly Farm in Berkshire, Overstrand Hall in Norfolk and Le Bois des Moutiers in France. After about 1900 this style gave way to
884-512: Is built on an area of some 330 acres (130 ha) and incorporates a private garden also designed by Lutyens. The building was designed as the official residence of the Viceroy of India and is now the official residence of the President of India . The Delhi Order columns at the front entrance of the palace have bells carved into them, which, it has been suggested, Lutyens had designed with
952-487: Is held by the National Railway Museum . The memorial was designated a grade II* listed building on 24 February 1977. Listed building status offers statutory protection from demolition or modification; grade II* is reserved for "particularly important buildings of more than special interest" and is applied to about 5.5 per cent of listings. In November 2015, as part of commemorations for the centenary of
1020-574: The Buildings of England series , while noting that; "the genius and the charlatan were very close together in Lutyens". In the introduction to the catalogue for the 1981 Lutyens exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , the architectural writer Colin Amery described Lutyens as "the builder of some of our finest country houses and gardens". In 2015 a memorial to Lutyens by the sculptor Stephen Cox
1088-525: The Court of St. James's . Between 1915 and 1928, Lutyens also produced designs for a new palace for the Duke of Alba's younger brother, Hernando Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duke of Peñaranda . The palace of El Guadalperal, as it was to be called, would have been, if built, Edwin Lutyens's largest country house. Lutyens married Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964) on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth , Hertfordshire. She
1156-552: The Delhi Order and was used by him for several designs in England, such as Campion Hall, Oxford . Unlike the more traditional British architects who came before him, he was both inspired by and incorporated various features from the local and traditional Indian architecture—something most clearly seen in the great drum-mounted Buddhist dome of Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan . This palatial building, containing 340 rooms,
1224-613: The Hyderabad House for the last Nizam of Hyderabad , as his Delhi palace and planned the layout for the Janpath and Rajpath roads. Before the end of World War I , he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission ) and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead . Larger cemeteries have
1292-804: The India Gate ; he also designed the Viceroy's House, which is now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan . Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture. He was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1933. Lutyens was born in Kensington , London, the tenth of thirteen children of Mary Theresa Gallwey (1832/33–1906) from Killarney , Ireland, and Captain Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829–1915),
1360-596: The Liria Palace , a neoclassical building which was severely damaged during the Spanish Civil War . The palace was originally built in the 18th century for James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick , and still belongs to his descendants. Lutyens's reconstruction was commissioned by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba . The Duke had been in contact with Lutyens while serving as the Spanish ambassador to
1428-559: The "youth of Ireland", and it has been a hostel ever since. Largely designed by Lutyens over 20 or so years (1912 to 1930), New Delhi, situated within the metropolis of Delhi , popularly known as ' Lutyens' Delhi ', was chosen to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government in 1911; the project was completed in 1929 and officially inaugurated in 1931. In undertaking this project, Lutyens invented his own new order of classical architecture, which has become known as
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#17327825593461496-774: The British Raj, Lutyens was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) on 1 January 1930. As a chivalric order, the KCIE knighthood held precedence over his earlier bachelor knighthood . A bust of Lutyens in the former Viceroy's House is the only statue of a Westerner left in its original position in New Delhi. Lutyens's work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving 's book Indian Summer . In spite of his monumental work in India, Lutyens held views on
1564-537: The First World War, Historic England recognised the Midland Railway War Memorial as part of a national collection of Lutyens' war memorials. The war memorial forms part of Derby's Railway Conservation Area, a collection of buildings around the railway station associated with the Midland Railway. Designated by Derby City Council , the conservation area recognises the historic interest of the area and imposes controls on development. The memorial
1632-624: The Indian traders would participate in "the grand shopping centre for the residents of Shahjahanabad and New Delhi", thus giving rise to the D-shaped market seen today. Many of the garden-ringed villas in the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone (LBZ)—also known as Lutyens' Delhi—that were part of Lutyens's original scheme for New Delhi are under threat due to the constant pressure for development in Delhi. The LBZ
1700-593: The LMS and most other railways after the Second World War). The Midland had planned to build a second memorial at its London terminus, St Pancras , but the plans fell through due to lack of funds. The artist Fabian Peake created a memorial there in 2018, unveiled on the centenary of the Armistice (11 November), inspired by job titles he found in the Midland's Book of Remembrance. A copy of the book of remembrance
1768-489: The Midland Railway, unveiled the memorial on 15 December 1921 while the Right Reverend Edwyn Hoskyns , Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham , gave a dedication. The Midland did not invite the families of the dead to the ceremony, fearing that there would be insufficient space for them, but offered free travel passes to Derby for relatives wishing to visit the memorial after its unveiling. As well as
1836-783: The RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921, and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1925. In November 2015 the British government announced that all 44 of Lutyens's surviving First World War memorials in Britain had now been listed on the advice of Historic England , and were therefore all protected by law. This involved the one remaining memorial—the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building in Buckinghamshire —being added to
1904-787: The Royal Academy's planning for post-war London, an endeavour dismissed by Osbert Lancaster as "... not unlike what the new Nuremberg might have been had the Führer enjoyed the inestimable advantage of the advice and guidance of the late Sir Aston Webb ". Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge in Dublin , which consists of a bridge over the railway and
1972-606: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 223967382 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:29:19 GMT Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA ( / ˈ l ʌ t j ə n z / LUT -yənz ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 )
2040-513: The architecture of the Empire – Hardinge wanted elements of the Indian vernacular for political reasons. An unapologetic spokesman of British imperialism he built the Viceroy's Palace as a symbol of glory of the Raj, and considered Indians to be primitive as yet on the verge of civilization who deserved to be ruled in perpetuity by the British. In Madrid , Lutyens's work can be seen in the interiors of
2108-556: The armed forces (almost half of fighting-age men employed by the railways, the remainder of whom were mostly in " reserved occupations ", required for domestic service). The Midland's workforce was reduced by a third as almost 23,000 men left for war. As a result, the Midland and other railway companies began employing women on a large scale for the first time. The company published a pamphlet, titled For King and Country , in December 1914, giving details of Midland employees who had joined
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2176-512: The armed forces by that date. Within a week of the United Kingdom declaring war on Germany in August, over 1,800 reservists had been called up, and hundreds more employees had volunteered; to be able to carry on its operations, the company began asking employees to obtain permission from management before "joining the colours". In the same pamphlet, the company promised to re-employ the men on their return, and to pay an allowance to their families while
2244-492: The bronze plaques were stolen and later recovered. In the early 20th century, the Midland Railway was one of the largest railway companies in Britain. The Midland had its headquarters in Derby , establishing itself there more comprehensively than any other railway company in any other town in Britain. It was the town's largest employer—at the turn of the century, it employed over 12,000 people in Derby alone. The Midland dominated
2312-734: The effects of the war. As a result, the Midland was amalgamated with its rival the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and several smaller railways in the Railways Act 1921 to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), whose casualties from the Second World War are commemorated on the LNWR's war memorial outside Euston station in London. Both memorials are now the responsibility of Network Rail , which inherited them from British Rail (itself created by nationalisation of
2380-477: The greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". Lutyens played an instrumental role in the construction of New Delhi , which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India . In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as " Lutyens' Delhi ". In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker , he was also the main architect of several monuments in New Delhi such as
2448-467: The harbour, a real tennis court, a large guest house (The White House), a boathouse and a chapel; alterations and extensions to Howth Castle , County Dublin ; the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha'penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen's Green ; and Costelloe Lodge at Casla (also known as Costelloe), County Galway (that
2516-428: The hotel's garden. Of Portland stone construction, the memorial consists of a 10 m (32 ft 10 in) high cenotaph with rounded sides in the centre of a 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high screen wall. At the top of the cenotaph is a recumbent effigy of an unknown soldier, partially covered by his greatcoat and with his Brodie helmet and bayonet at his feet. The soldier lies on a catafalque , beneath which
2584-475: The idea that as the bells were silent the British rule would never come to an end. At one time, more than 2,000 people were required to care for the building and serve the Viceroy's household. The new city contains both the Parliament buildings and government offices (many designed by Herbert Baker) and was built distinctively of the local red sandstone using the traditional Mughal style. When composing
2652-483: The largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. Around a third of the company's workforce, some 23,000 men, left to fight, of whom 2,833 were killed. Standing on Midland Road, within sight of Derby railway station and backing on to the garden of the Midland Hotel , the memorial consists of a cenotaph partially enclosed by a screen wall on three sides. Affixed to the wall are bronze plaques listing
2720-435: The later years of his life, Lutyens suffered with several bouts of pneumonia . In the early 1940s he was diagnosed with cancer . He died on 1 January 1944 and was cremated at East Finchley Crematorium in north London, also known as St Marylebone Crematorium. His ashes were interred in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral , beneath a memorial designed by his friend and fellow architect William Curtis Green . Lutyens received
2788-490: The list, plus a further fourteen having their statuses upgraded. For the Imperial Tobacco Company 's First World War memorial, installed in 1921 at its Bedminster Head Office, this protection arrived too late to prevent its destruction following the company's take-over in 1986 by Hanson Trust plc . The architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of Lutyen's Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 Surrey volume of
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2856-401: The memorial is not strictly a cenotaph as the sculpture at the top is a human figure rather than an empty tomb. The screen wall forms rectangular alcoves on each side of the cenotaph, 7 m (23 ft) by 3 m (9 ft 10 in) deep. The names of the dead were originally carved into the stone but are now embossed on bronze plaques due to erosion. A small step allows children to view
2924-473: The men were gone. By the end of the war, 2,833 men from the Midland had been killed; their names are listed on the war memorial. Another 7,000 were wounded. The cenotaph is one of several Midland-related war memorials in Derby. A plaque commemorating the company's casualties from the Second Boer War is affixed to the wall on platform 1 at the nearby station. As Derby diminished in importance as
2992-430: The monument, the Midland Railway published a book of remembrance , a copy of which was sent to the family of each of the men listed on the memorial. The book contained a photograph of the memorial, along with details about each man's occupation within the company, their home depot or station, regiment, and military rank. In the foreword, the Midland's general manager, Frank Tatlow, described the memorial as expressing: ...
3060-414: The names of the dead. On either side of the cenotaph is the Midland's coat of arms, enclosed in a laurel wreath. The crest is surmounted by a catafalque with sculpted lion heads at the corners, supporting the recumbent effigy of a soldier, covered by a coat. Lutyens renders the soldier anonymous by lifting him high above eye level, allowing the viewer to believe it could be somebody they knew. The memorial
3128-453: The names of the fallen close-up. The names are listed in alphabetical order with no indication of military rank or branch of service. At the ends of the screen wall are solid squares, each supporting a flagpole. The design for the cenotaph became the model for Rochdale Cenotaph , which was unveiled a year after the Midland's. Historic England describes the memorial as "an eloquent witness to the tragic impacts of world events on this company and
3196-553: The original prayer of dedication from the 1921 service, read by the Reverend James Lindsay. The theft prompted an initiative to treat the metal elements of all Derbyshire war memorials with SmartWater , a product which allows metal to be identified under ultraviolet light. In August 2022 a Car crashed into memorial after police chase. Other railway war memorials: Other listed buildings: World War I memorials Too Many Requests If you report this error to
3264-405: The peoples of the Indian sub-continent which would now be considered racist, although they were common at the time among many of his contemporaries. He thought the Indian Indo-Saracenic style was "formless, not of carved decoration, an anathema...hardly qualified as architecture at all." Endless battles were fought between him and Viceroy Hardinge over architectural style: Lutyens wanted classical,
3332-404: The plans for New Delhi, Lutyens planned for the new city to lie southwest of the walled city of Shahjahanbad . His plans for the city also laid out the street plan for New Delhi consisting of wide tree-lined avenues. Built in the spirit of British colonial rule, the place where the new imperial city and the older native settlement met was intended to be a market. It was there that Lutyens imagined
3400-439: The sacrifices made by its staff in the First World War". Historian Ana Carden-Coyne described it as a "simple yet solemn memorial". The design uses shapes reminiscent of classical architecture , which Lutyens (influenced by his own pantheism and his association with Theosophy ) preferred for its "abstract shape and intrinsic beauty", over explicitly religious symbolism such as a Christian cross. The recumbent soldier's position at
3468-422: The top of the pylon rather than at eye level is reminiscent of ancient tower tombs. His position high above eye level gives him anonymity, enhanced by the greatcoat covering his face, allowing the onlooker to believe he could be somebody they personally mourned. His position draws attention to the details on the pylon by making the viewer look up, allowing them to focus on the aesthetics of the structure rather than
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#17327825593463536-595: The town; it erected dozens of buildings, including Midland station and the Midland Hotel . Railways remained the town's largest industry until the middle of the 20th century. Railway companies contributed heavily to the British war effort in the First World War . Many carriages were repurposed for use on hospital trains , railway works were given over for weapons manufacturing, and most troop movements within Britain were made by train. The railways also gave up large numbers of their employees for military service—across all British railway companies, approximately 185,000 joined
3604-483: The triumphant end of the war, as well as the sadness and sorrow it entailed, and is intended to embody the whole meaning of those troubled years which have bequeathed to us the memory of so many good lives lost and stout hearts which no longer beat. It marks the victory which crowned their whole efforts, and the pride with which the Midland Company can truly affirm 'our men did not a little to that end.' The Midland and other British railway companies struggled to recover from
3672-418: The violent manner of the soldier's death, giving idealised sense of heroism and self-sacrifice or "beautiful death" which Lutyens was keen to portray—with rare exceptions, the violent manner of a soldier's death was not generally considered an appropriate subject for sculpture in First World War memorials. The memorial was built by J Parnell and Son Ltd and cost £10,309 (1921). Charles Booth, company chairman of
3740-434: The war had a profound effect on him. Thereafter, he dedicated much of his time to commemorating its casualties. He became renowned for The Cenotaph in London, which became Britain's national memorial, and for his work for the Imperial War Graves Commission . London's Cenotaph was one of the most influential designs for First World War memorials ; cenotaphs, many based to a greater or lesser degree on Lutyens' design, became
3808-538: Was Lutyens's idea for the taller monument. The design took less than six hours to complete. Lutyens also designed many other war memorials, and others are based on or inspired by Lutyens's designs. Examples of Lutyens's other war memorials include the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin, the Tower Hill memorial , the Manchester Cenotaph and the Arch of Remembrance memorial in Leicester. Lutyens also refurbished Lindisfarne Castle for its wealthy owner. One of Lutyens's smaller works, but considered one of his masterpieces,
3876-406: Was Sir Frederick Gibberd . In 1945, a year after his death, A Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull was published. Lutyens worked on the plan with Sir Patrick Abercrombie and they are credited as its co-authors. Abercrombie's introduction in the plan makes special reference to Lutyens's contribution. The plan was, however, rejected by Hull City Council . He was also involved in
3944-456: Was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses , war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely
4012-547: Was built in 1/12 scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle . It was not conceived or built as a plaything for children; its goal was to exhibit the finest British craftsmanship of the period. Lutyens was commissioned in 1929 to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool . He planned a vast building of brick and granite, topped with towers and a 510-foot (160 m) dome, with commissioned sculpture work by Charles Sargeant Jagger and W. C. H. King . Work on this building started in 1933, but
4080-450: Was damaged in 2010 when several of the bronze plaques, listing the names of the dead, were ripped from the walls. Some were quickly discovered; others, apparently stolen for the scrap value of the metal, were recovered later. Two men responsible for the theft received prison sentences. The plaques were restored by Network Rail and the Railway Heritage Trust at a cost of £18,000, and a service of re-dedication took place on 17 December 2010 using
4148-412: Was halted during World War II . After the war, the project ended due to a shortage of funding, with only the crypt completed. A model of Lutyens's unrealised building was given to and restored by the Walker Art Gallery in 1975 and is now on display in the Museum of Liverpool . The architect of the present Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral , which was built over part of the crypt and consecrated in 1967,
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#17327825593464216-411: Was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker . For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square , London. He began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey . During this work, he met the garden designer and horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll . In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming , Surrey. It
4284-423: Was in contrast to the formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century. This "natural" style was to define the "English garden" until modern times. Lutyens's fame grew largely through the popularity of the new lifestyle magazine Country Life created by Edward Hudson , which featured many of his house designs. Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens's style and commissioned Lutyens for
4352-487: Was placed on the 2002 World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites. None of the bungalows in the LBZ were designed by Lutyens—he only designed the four bungalows in the Presidential Estate surrounding Rashtrapati Bhavan at Willingdon Crescent, now known as Mother Teresa Crescent. Other buildings in Delhi that Lutyens designed include Baroda House , Bikaner House , Hyderabad House , and Patiala House . In recognition of his architectural accomplishments for
4420-418: Was the beginning of a professional partnership that would define the look of many Lutyens country houses. The "Lutyens–Jekyll" garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, herbaceous borders, and with plants such as lilies, lupins, delphiniums and lavender,
4488-469: Was third daughter of Edith (née Villiers) and the 1st Earl of Lytton , a former Viceroy of India . Lady Emily had proposed to Lutyens two years before the wedding, and her parents disapproved of the marriage. Their marriage was largely unsatisfactory, practically from the start, with Lady Emily developing interests in theosophy , Eastern religions, and being drawn both emotionally and philosophically to Jiddu Krishnamurti . They had five children: During
4556-422: Was unveiled on 15 December 1921. The Midland also published a book of remembrance, a copy of which was sent to the families of all the men listed on the memorial. Later in the 1920s, the Midland Railway was amalgamated into a larger company and Derby's importance as a railway centre waned. Today, the memorial stands in a conservation area and is a grade II* listed building . It was repaired in 2010 after several of
4624-459: Was used for refuge by J. Bruce Ismay , the Chairman of the White Star Line , following the sinking of the RMS Titanic ). In 1907, Lutyens designed Tranarossan House , located just north of Downings on the Rosguill Peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal . The house was built of local granite for Mr and Mrs Phillimore, from London, as a holiday home. In 1937, Mrs Phillimore donated it to An Óige (Irish Youth Hostels Association) for
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