diff --git a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/LayoutViewEngine.cs b/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/LayoutViewEngine.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index de6401aa6..000000000
--- a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ViewEngines/LayoutViewEngine.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Web.Mvc;
-using Orchard.Themes;
-
-namespace Orchard.Mvc.ViewEngines {
-    public class LayoutViewEngine : IViewEngine {
-        private readonly ViewEngineCollection _viewEngines;
-
-        public LayoutViewEngine(ViewEngineCollection viewEngines) {
-            _viewEngines = viewEngines;
-        }
-
-        public ViewEngineResult FindPartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialViewName, bool useCache) {
-            return new ViewEngineResult(Enumerable.Empty<string>());
-        }
-
-        public ViewEngineResult FindView(
-            ControllerContext controllerContext,
-            string viewName,
-            string masterName,
-            bool useCache) {
-
-            var skipLayoutViewEngine = false;
-            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(masterName) == false)
-                skipLayoutViewEngine = true;
-            if (!ThemeFilter.IsApplied(controllerContext.RequestContext))
-                skipLayoutViewEngine = true;
-            if (_viewEngines == null || _viewEngines.Count == 0)
-                skipLayoutViewEngine = true;
-            if (skipLayoutViewEngine)
-                return new ViewEngineResult(Enumerable.Empty<string>());
-
-            var bodyView = _viewEngines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, viewName);
-
-            ViewEngineResult layoutView = null;
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(controllerContext.RouteData.Values["area"] as string))
-                layoutView = _viewEngines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, string.Format("Layout.{0}", controllerContext.RouteData.Values["area"]));
-            if (layoutView == null || layoutView.View == null)
-                layoutView = _viewEngines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, "Layout");
-
-            var documentView = _viewEngines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, "Document");
-
-            if (bodyView.View == null ||
-                layoutView.View == null ||
-                documentView.View == null) {
-
-                var missingTemplatesResult = new ViewEngineResult(
-                    (bodyView.SearchedLocations ?? Enumerable.Empty<string>())
-                        .Concat((layoutView.SearchedLocations ?? Enumerable.Empty<string>()))
-                        .Concat((documentView.SearchedLocations ?? Enumerable.Empty<string>()))
-                    );
-
-                return missingTemplatesResult;
-            }
-
-            var view = new LayoutView(this, new[] {
-                                                bodyView,
-                                                layoutView,
-                                                documentView,
-                                            });
-
-            return new ViewEngineResult(view, this);
-        }
-
-        public void ReleaseView(ControllerContext controllerContext, IView view) {
-            var layoutView = (LayoutView)view;
-            layoutView.ReleaseViews(controllerContext);
-        }
-
-        public IDisposable CreateScope(ViewContext context) {
-            return new Scope(context) { LayoutViewEngine = this };
-        }
-
-        class Scope : IDisposable {
-            private readonly ControllerContext _context;
-            private readonly Scope _prior;
-
-            public Scope(ControllerContext context) {
-                _context = context;
-                _prior = From(context);
-                context.HttpContext.Items[typeof(Scope)] = this;
-            }
-
-            public LayoutViewEngine LayoutViewEngine { get; set; }
-
-            public void Dispose() {
-                _context.HttpContext.Items[typeof(Scope)] = _prior;
-            }
-
-            public static Scope From(ControllerContext context) {
-                return (Scope)context.HttpContext.Items[typeof(Scope)];
-            }
-        }
-
-        public static IViewEngine CreateShim() {
-            return new Shim();
-        }
-
-        class Shim : IViewEngine {
-            public ViewEngineResult FindPartialView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string partialViewName, bool useCache) {
-                var scope = Scope.From(controllerContext);
-                if (scope != null && scope.LayoutViewEngine != null) {
-                    var result = scope.LayoutViewEngine._viewEngines.FindPartialView(controllerContext, partialViewName);
-                    return result;
-                }
-
-                return new ViewEngineResult(Enumerable.Empty<string>());
-            }
-
-            public ViewEngineResult FindView(ControllerContext controllerContext, string viewName, string masterName, bool useCache) {
-                var scope = Scope.From(controllerContext);
-                if (scope != null && scope.LayoutViewEngine != null) {
-                    var result = scope.LayoutViewEngine._viewEngines.FindView(controllerContext, viewName, masterName);
-                    return result;
-                }
-
-                return new ViewEngineResult(Enumerable.Empty<string>());
-            }
-
-            public void ReleaseView(ControllerContext controllerContext, IView view) {
-            }
-        }
-
-    }
-
-
-}
diff --git a/src/Orchard/Orchard.Framework.csproj b/src/Orchard/Orchard.Framework.csproj
index 53a3d2326..718cdd4e5 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/Orchard.Framework.csproj
+++ b/src/Orchard/Orchard.Framework.csproj
@@ -715,8 +715,6 @@
     <Compile Include="Mvc\Results\NotFoundResult.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\Routes\RouteExtensions.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\IViewEngineProvider.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\LayoutView.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\LayoutViewEngine.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\LayoutViewContext.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\ThemeAwareness\ThemedViewResultFilter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Mvc\ViewEngines\WebForms\WebFormViewEngineProvider.cs" />