The Deanery (or Deanery Garden) is a house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in Sonning, Berkshire, England, between 1899 and 1901, in the style of the Arts and Crafts movement. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA, LLD ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 Sonning (occasionally called Sonning-on-Thames) is a Village and Civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, a few miles Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the The garden (c. 1 hectare) was designed by Gertrude Jekyll, like many Lutyens country houses. Gertrude Jekyll ( November 29, 1843 – December 8, 1932) (surname pronounced /ˈdʒiˌkəl/) was an influential British garden Although in the centre of the village next to St Andrew's Church and the Bull Inn, the house and garden are very secluded, being surrounded by high walls. The Bull Inn in Sonning is an historic Public house &ndash now also a Restaurant and Hotel &ndash in the High Street in centre of the village
The house was built for the founder of the early lifestyle magazine Country Life, Edward Hudson, essentially as a show home. Country Life is a British weekly Magazine. It covers the pleasures and joys of Rural life as well as the concerns of rural people See also Edward Hudson (1743–1821 Edward Burgess Hudson (1854–1936 was the founder of Country Life magazine in 1897 It was featured in the magazine.
The garden and house are not open to the public.
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