Volume: Easby Abbey, North Yorkshire

Description

Ninety-six sheets relating to Easby Abbey, ranging in date from the early twentieth century to October 1987. The sheets include maps, plans, sections, elevations and details of the site, as well as publication drawings and posters.

There are a large number of sheets created by H M Office of Works dating from the early twentieth century, relating to strengthening and underpinning works on the abbey buildings and also concerning surveys carried out at the site. This includes a set of five sheets created in October 1938 concerning designs for a new roof for the tithe barn, and a set of six sheets of measured survey drawings of the barn also created in October 1938.

There are a number of sheets relating to designs for a new caretaker's cottage at the site, and preparations made to the area before construction began.

There is a set of sixteen sheets showing survey plans of medieval stone floor slabs and grave slabs in the Abbey Church, produced between 1970 and 1980.

There are also a number of sheets of photogrammetric elevations of the gatehouse and frater, produced in 1984 and 1985 by the Photogrammetric Unit at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, and commissioned by English Heritage.

The most recent sheets comprise survey drawings produced by the Greenhatch Group for English Heritage in 2010.

Content

This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans And Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

This Volume contains the following materials:

Location Map/Plan: 2

Measured Drawing: 63

Measured Survey: 17

Photogrammetric Survey: 13

Rectified Photography: 1

Miscellaneous: 1

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