[Archive:] Plans and Elevations for War Memorials, Cemeteries, Hospitals, etc., with assorted other papers.

Hutton (A.J.S., Architect)

[Archive:] Plans and Elevations for War Memorials, Cemeteries, Hospitals, etc., with assorted other papers.

Description: 26 large sheets, including blueprints, with various designs for sites, buildings and details, some on cloth and some with colouring, four water-colour sketches for Fleet Air Arm Memorial c.1950s, various sizes and formats, stored rolled, signs of use and handling including damage to corners of some sheets, but the condition generally good

Publication Details: circa 1917- 1967

Notes: [With:] A selection of family papers including Hutton's own passport as well as some ancestral documents[And:] Further papers relating to his work - his business-card, reports and articles, as well as a folder relating to annual reunions of the Imperial War Graves Commission.Arthur James Scott Hutton (1891-1982) was born in Glasgow and trained there at the Glasgow School of Architecture. Following completion of his studies in 1914 he was appointed assistant in H.M. Office of Works, Edinburgh. He left in March the following year to serve in the Royal Engineers in France, supervising and desig...more[With:] A selection of family papers including Hutton's own passport as well as some ancestral documents[And:] Further papers relating to his work - his business-card, reports and articles, as well as a folder relating to annual reunions of the Imperial War Graves Commission.Arthur James Scott Hutton (1891-1982) was born in Glasgow and trained there at the Glasgow School of Architecture. Following completion of his studies in 1914 he was appointed assistant in H.M. Office of Works, Edinburgh. He left in March the following year to serve in the Royal Engineers in France, supervising and designing hospitals, camps, bakeries, halls and other buildings. Whilst still on war service in late 1918 he was admitted as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA). He retired from the Royal Engineers as Captain in September 1919 - in the same month he was appointed architect to the Imperial War Graves Commission in France, Belgium, and Germany, working under Sir Herbert Baker, Sir Reginald Blomfield and Sir Edwin Lutyens (information from www[.]scottisharchitects[.]org[.]uk/architect_full.php?id=203484). This archive offers a compelling insight into the nature and excellence of the work undertaken by Hutton and his colleagues at the IWGC, including proposed plans that were never realised and some that have gone on to be regarded as outstanding examples; the presence of later papers relating to the Old Colleagues Association of the IWGC offers a pleasing coda to the main group, and demonstrates the lasting bond that the project built.The earliest of the work here dates from Hutton's years of active service, at Étaples, with plans for a field hospital and a proposal for a prisoner of war camp there. The archive includes five plans for various components of the Marzagues Indian Cemetery at Marseille, perhaps Hutton's best-known work in this field, as well as projects in South Africa and the Fleet Air Arm Memorial at Lee-on-Solent.A full listing can be provided on request. HIDE