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Church architecture: sketches and notes, Circa 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Cam 1/26

Scope and Contents

File contains: five pages of handwritten notes headed ‘Gothic Architecture’; two pages of brief handwritten notes on other styles of church architecture including Norman, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular; and detailed pencil sketches of details of individual churches, chiefly doorways and capitals, in particular three churches in Northamptonshire (St Peter’s Northampton, Earls Barton and Castle Ashby). The file also contains a small pen and ink sketch inscribed ‘Sir Michael’s Scott’s Tomb, Melrose Abbey’ [the inscription is not in HC’s hand]. Also six further sheets of sketches of details of church architecture: Gateway at Cologne; Holmer, Herefordshire, Leominster and St Michael's Coventry; Chalons sur Marne; St Mary's Hall Coventry, Hereford Cathedral, and Upper Lade [sic: = Upper Lyde?] Herefordshire; Wellington from Chancel; and Strasbourg Castle. [The notes and sketches are probably not all produced by Helen Cam (the handwriting on some of the sketches is certainly not that of Helen Cam), but the identity of any other originators is unknown.]

Dates

  • Creation: Circa 1960

Creator

Extent

1 file(s)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by John V H Constable, January 2024, on behalf of the Constable family and in memory of his father, Giles Constable, and his uncle, John D Constable; also six additional sheets of sketches (Cologne, Hereford etc as in scope and content) donated July 2024.

Originator(s)

Cam, Helen

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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