Collection: J.W. Bloe manuscript building inventories of East Sussex and Birmingham
- Date:
- 1943 - 1945
- Reference:
- JWB01
- Type:
- Collection Containing Textual Material
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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 4 binders containing notes of buildings built before 1830 in East Sussex, and 1 folder containing an architectural description of Birmingham.
The first binder contains 236 pages of meticulous manuscript notes describing buildings in some parishes in East Sussex. Pencil sketches of floor plans, elevations, details and cross sections are frequently present in the margins. The pages of notes are divided into columns which record: the name of the building, its date, its position in the parish, its owner and the degree of access granted to Bloe, notes about the building, and the position from which a photograph was taken. Parishes represented comprise: Buxted, Chalvington, Chiddingley, Danehill, Fletching, Framfield, Frant, Glynde, Hailsham, Hartfield, Hellingley, East Hoathley, Little Horsted, Horsted Keynes, Isfield, Laughton, Lindfield, Maresfield, Mayfield, Ringner, Ripe, Rotherfield, Uckfield, Wadhurst, Waldron, and Withyham.
The second, third and fourth binders are typescript copies of the first. There are no sketches and the entries are arranged in a similar fashion to RCHME-style inventories of the time.
The folder contains a manuscript description of the architecture of Birmingham compiled by Bloe for the Warwickshire VII (Birmingham) volume of the Victoria County History series. The description is illustrated with pencil sketches similar to those described above.
Archival History
The Sussex inventory was funded by the National Buildings Record and the Rockefeller Trust between 1943-5. It is likely that they were received by W.H. Godfrey of the National Buildings Record beween to the NMR (NBR) during this period
The Birmingham notes were funded by the Victoria County History and were given to the NMR (RCHME) in 1963 by W.B Stephens of the VCH at the Institue of Historical Research.