Collection: Survey notes and photographs of church effigies by the Reverend Henry Lawrance

Description

This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

The collection contains manuscript and typescript notes on church carvings and effigies arranged into county files. The notes include historical details about the carvings and their physical condition. Files also contain occasional photographs, sketches and correspondence.

Also included is a scrapbook containing pencil sketches, newspaper cuttings and postcards showing effigies in churches. Includes an undated letter to Lawrance from Margot Hebditch, librarian of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.

There is also a separate series of negatives and prints.

A handlist is available.

Archival History

Rev. Henry Lawrance was vicar of Dinting, Derbyshire and Boynton, Humberside. He was an antiquary with a particular interest in armour, effigies and heraldry.

The NMR holds many photographic negatives by Lawrance in its main negative collection and prints produced from them in the Red Box Collection.

The collection was transferred to the NMR archive in 2007.

Content

This Collection contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 16

File: 19

Scrap Book: 1

Rights

© Historic England Archive