Volume: Finchale Priory, Framwellgate Moor, County Durham

Description

258 sheets dating from 1896 to 1991. The earliest sheet is an Ordnance Survey map from the edition of 1896, and there are other similar sheets included, from 1914-15, 1920 and 1938.

There are a number of sheets from between 1914 and 1928 outlining Office of Works activities on the site, including details of excavations, and a new footbridge, water supply, gates and boundary railings.

From between 1933 and 1955 there are drawings for a proposed custodian's hut for the site; a more detailed set from 1967 showing a new design are also included.

There is a Royal Engineers map from 1940 showing a proposed ammunition depot to be sited to the south-west of the site.

A variety of sheets from the 1980s are included, such as an electrical installation drawing from 1984, drawings of a new concrete retaining wall from 1985 and condition survey and remedial drawings of the bridge from 1986. Other safety works are covered in a set of drawings dating from between 1989 and 1991.

The largest set of drawings are sketches from 1990 by an unidentified maker, showing full-size profiles and tracery details from the surviving Priory structures.

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:

Annotated Map: 1

Excavation Plan: 1

Map: 6

Measured Drawing: 108

Measured Survey: 8

Sketch Plan: 134

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