Hannen Columbarium

The Hannen Columbarium is a columbarium mausoleum – a resting place for the cremated remains of the deceased – built for the Hannen family of Wargrave, Berkshire, England and designed by Edwin Lutyens.

[1] The Hannen Columbarium was built in 1906–07 to house the ashes of Nicholas's father, Sir Nicholas Hannen, a barrister, diplomat and judge who died in Shanghai in 1900.

Lutyens was commissioned in 1905, and produced a columbarium design combining Byzantine Revival with Arts and Crafts and with classical architectural lines, in the form of a 12 feet (3.7 m) square building of red-brick, red-tile, glass-tile and stonework, sited in the south-east of the graveyard of St. Mary's Church, Wargrave.

[2][3] Within – in Lutyens's words – is "a circular cella within four piers, which carry intersecting arches forming pendentives and completed by a saucer dome.

[1] It forms Lutyens's earliest mausoleum design, and (with Heathcote in Ilkley), is recognised as an embodiment of the point at which he fully incorporated classical architecture in his designs.