Volume: Waverley Abbey, Surrey

Description

233 sheets dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. The earliest sheets, made between 1943 and 1960, show plans of the site derived or copied from Harold Brakspear's survey of 1905.

From the early 1960s there are drawings relating to the proposed site boundary and access path, and a number of site and deed plans derived from Ordnance Survey sheets. From 1964 there are several drawings relating to arch support schemes.

Early 1970s drawings relating to new work and wall strengthening are included. There are also drawings for museum display panels and publications from between 1974 and 1975.

There are drawings from a survey of the car park area from 1976, grass cutting plans from 1979, plans for a new septic tank from 1981 and window details from 1982.

A large number of survey drawings produced, copied and revised in the 1990s are included, notably a series of photogrammetric survey sheets made and revised between 1993 and 1996, and a topographic survey from 1995. There are also sections from an evaluation trench dating from 1994, drawings of window splays and buttresses from 1995, and block plans from 1998.

Three oversized drawings are included, sketch plans from an undated site survey.

Content

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

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