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Inigo Triggs

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"Broad Dene", Haslemere, designed by Inigo Triggs and W. F. Unsworth for the artist Walter Tyndale, built in 1900.

Henry Inigo Triggs (1876–1923) was an English country house architect and designer of formal gardens, and author.

Family life

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Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs was born in Chiswick, London, on 28 February 1876, to James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. The architect Inigo Jones was a distant relative.

His older brother was Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868–1936), born in Chelsea, who in 1887 emigrated to Australia, becoming a wealthy New South Wales grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.

Career

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Triggs designed many formal gardens and later some country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and in re-creating gardens of the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England.

In 1906 he was awarded the Godwin Bursary, presenting two reports: "The planning of public squares and open spaces" (76 pages), relating to the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Munich, including public monuments and fountains; "Le Petit Palais, Paris" (20 pages), a detailed description of the Musée des Beaux-Arts building, Avenue Winston Churchill, designed by Charles Girault and built between 1897 and 1900.

In the 1910s Triggs was in partnership with the architect William Frederick Unsworth (1851–1912), and his son Gerald Unsworth (1883–1946), in Petersfield, Hampshire. W. F. Unsworth had previously designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1879, which was destroyed by fire in 1926 and replaced in 1932 with the present Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

In 1919, Triggs was tasked by The Whiteley Homes Trust to plan and supervise the landscaping of the area around Whiteley Village, Walton on Thames, Surrey, constructing tree-lined avenues and turfed walks, with fruiting trees and shrubs and lavender borders.[1] He also designed Cooper's Bridge at Bramshott and the War Memorial in Petersfield High Street in 1922.

Personal life

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In 1907 he married Gladys Claire Hill, sister of Mabel Frances Hill of Taormina, a fashionable resort in Sicily. Triggs designed La Guardiola for his sister-in-law. At this point he wrote The Art of Garden Design in Italy.[2]

In 1910 Triggs bought the property then called Fry's Farm, in Liphook, Hampshire. He re-designed the farmhouse and gardens as his home and renamed it Little Boarhunt, based on a legend about King John hunting boar in the district. The house is now a Grade II listed building, being a representative romantic house of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Triggs died on 9 April 1923 in Taormina. A memorial tablet is dedicated to him in St Mary's Church, Bramshott.

Houses

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  • Little Boarhunt House[3] and gardens[4] Liphook, Hampshire (1910) including a sunken Elizabethan garden.[5]
  • The Rectory[6] Liphook, Hampshire (1912)
  • Rookswood's Windrush Lodge[7] Nazeing, Essex (1913)
  • Homefield[7] Nazeing, Essex
  • Fulmer Chase, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Originally known as Stoke Barn, the house and gardens are credited to architect Gerald Unsworth and Inigo Triggs. The gardens include a substantial rock garden and ponds. (circa 1912). [8]

Gardens

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  • Barrow Court,[9] Somerset (1890)
  • Chillington Hall, Staffordshire (1911)
  • Saighton Grange (now Abbey Gate College) Cheshire (1901)
  • Restalls, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire. The home of W F Unsworth, Inigo Triggs' business partner. (circa 1905)
  • Garden Hill, Steep, Petersfield. The house was designed by W F Unsworth. The garden is believed to be by Triggs.
  • Ashford Chace, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire.[10] near Petersfield, Hampshire, for Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1912)[11]
  • Fulmer Chase, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Originally known as Stoke Barn, the house and gardens are credited to architect Gerald Unsworth and Inigo Triggs. The gardens include a substantial rock garden and ponds. (circa 1912). [12]

Memorials

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  • *Steep War Memorial. This was the first village war memorial to be dedicated in the country. It contains the name of Edward Thomas, the Poet. It is listed of Historic Importance Grade II.
  • Bedford Park War Memorial, outside St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, London (c.1920)[13]
  • Haslemere War Memorial (c. 1920)

Books

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Villa Carlotta as depicted in The Art of Garden Design in Italy (1906) by Inigo Triggs

Sources

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  • RIBA Journal, 1923, volume 30, page 431 – Obituary.
  • Country life, 1995, volume 189, number 43, 26 Oct, pages 58–61 -"Designs for a garden – formal informality" by Diana Baskervyle-Glegg, on Triggs' Edwardian garden designs.

References

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  1. ^ The Whiteley Homes Trust, by Alan Brown 1992 ISBN 978-0-85033-849-2
  2. ^ Bishop, Wendy (Autumn 2014). "Harry Inigo Triggs, Early 20th-century architect and garden designer" (PDF). Hampshire Garden Trust. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Detailed Record".
  4. ^ "Parks and Gardens UK". Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  5. ^ "Detailed Record".
  6. ^ "Detailed Record".
  7. ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ The Studio Magazine, Volume 62 No. 256 15 July 1914
  9. ^ "Parks and Gardens UK". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  10. ^ "Hampshire Treasures: Volume 6 ( East Hampshire), Page 309 - Steep". Archived from the original on 12 May 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
  11. ^ "Geograph:: Ashford Chace and farmland below... (C) Martyn Pattison".
  12. ^ The Studio Magazine, Volume 62 No. 256 15 July 1914
  13. ^ Historic England. "Bedford Park War Memorial (1422868)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  14. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo; Tanner, Henry (1 January 1901). "Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones: a Series of Measured Drawings and Other Illustrations Together With Descriptive Notes a Biographical Sketch and List of His Authentic Works". Batsford – via Amazon.
  15. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo; Tanner, Henry (1 January 1901). "Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones, ." Batsford – via Amazon.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Inigo, Triggs H. (1 January 1902). "Formal Gardens In England And Scotland Their Planning And Arrangement Architectural And Ornamental Features". B T Batsford – via Amazon.
  17. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 January 1902). "Formal Gardens In England And Scotland. Their Planning Arrangement Architectural And Ornamental Features". Batsford. – via Amazon.
  18. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 December 1988). Formal Gardens in England and Scotland. ACC Art Books. ASIN 1851490175.
  19. ^ Triggs, H. I. (1 January 1906). "The Art of Garden Design in Italy". Longmans, Green – via Amazon.
  20. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 January 1942). "The art of garden design in Italy". s.n – via Amazon.
  21. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (15 May 2007). The Art of Garden Design in Italy. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ASIN 076432666X.
  22. ^ Triggs, H. I. (1 January 1909). "Town Planning: Past, Present and Possible". Methuen & Co – via Amazon.
  23. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 January 1909). "Town Planning. Past, Present and Possible. With 173 illustrations". London: Methuen – via Amazon.
  24. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 January 1911). "Town planning, past, present and possible". Methuen & Co – via Amazon.
  25. ^ TRIGGS, H. INDIGO (1 January 1913). "GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE". B. T. Batsford – via Amazon.
  26. ^ "Review of Garden Craft in Europe by H. Inigo Triggs". The Athenaeum (4469): 676. 21 June 1913.
  27. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (1 January 1933). "Garden craft in Europe". B.T. Batsford – via Amazon.
  28. ^ Triggs, H. Inigo (22 May 2008). Garden Craft In Europe. Jeremy Mills Publishing. ASIN 1906600058.
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