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GB 0074 CLC/514 · Collection · 1818-1884

Papers of architect Robert Phillips Whellock, comprising architectural sketchbooks including details of St Paul's Cathedral, 1858-83; and religious, family and autobiographical writings, 1818-84.

Whellock , Robert Phillips , 1835-1905 , architect
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
GB 0074 SC · Collection · 1508-2008

The Special Collections fonds comprises four important collections of graphic material: prints and maps from the Guildhall Library; Ordnance Survey maps; the photograph library and a collection of prints.

The Guildhall Library Prints and Maps collection is a diverse collection of graphic material relating to the City of London and surrounding areas, 1553-2008; including prints, sketches, drawings, engravings, etchings, panoramas, photographs and lantern slides of various subjects including streets and buildings, Second World War bomb damage, churches, people, City of London Corporation personnel and events including the Lord Mayor, statues and memorials, the Thames, and markets. Also maps, plans and surveys of London and surrounding counties, London streets, parish boundaries, railways, tramways, and sewers. With a collection of ephemeral items including posters, bills, cuttings, printed menus, invitations, exhibition ephemera, playing cards, trade cards, booksellers' labels, satires, and theatre playbills and programmes.

Ordnance Survey maps of Kent, 1894-1939; London, 1848-1940; and Middlesex, 1863-1914.

The prints collection is arranged by area of London, including views of streets and buildings in Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Battersea, Chelsea, Camberwell, City of London, Deptford, Finsbury, Fulham, Greenwich, Holborn, Hackney, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, Shoreditch, Saint Marylebone, Stoke Newington, Saint Pancras, Stepney, Southwark, Wandsworth, Tower of London, Westminster, and Woolwich; 1508-1988.

The photograph library, 1890-1986, includes photographs of streets organised by borough, including Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Hammersmith and Fulham, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and Westminster. Also photographs of subjects including London County Council and Greater London Council personnel, buildings and services; parks; statues; events and visits; important buildings; schools and educational services; rivers; fountains; industrial sites; healthcare services; museums; almshouses; lodging houses; youth clubs; social problems; docks; transport; churches and chapels; emergency services; libraries; restaurants and public houses.

Various.
PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY
GB 0074 O/187 · Collection · 1926

Detailed drawings of alterations, such as partitions, woodwork and so on, to be carried out for the Phoenix Assurance Company, at Byron House, Saint James' Street, Westminster, 1926.

Phoenix Assurance Company
GB 0074 ACC/1155 · Collection · 1844-1848

This collection consists of architectural drawings (on paper) of Kneller Hall, Twickenham, by George Mair, 1844-1848. The drawings of both First and Second Series bear the signatures: 'J.P. Kay Shuttleworth' and 'John Kelk'. In addition to the signatures all the drawings bear, in Kay-Shuttleworth's hand and following his signature, a date: 'Feb. 8. 1848' in the case of the First Series, and 'June 17 1848' in the case of Second Series. All the drawings bear, near Mair's inscription, the number 51/1844, which is perhaps his commission number or 'job number'. Moreover, all the drawings bear a circular stencilled stamp reading '1861 R.E. Office London' enclosing a number (either 6, 7, or 12).

Drawings in the First Series are all scaled 1 inch to 10 ft. They are all signed; 'Geo. Mair, architect, 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Sq, London'. Most have original legends which contain clear indication that they relate to proposed alterations to an existing building. Drawings include: basement plan; ground plan; first floor plan; second floor plan; plan of roofs; entrance elevation; back elevation and side elevation.

Drawings of the Second Series show a very substantially altered building as compared with that depicted in the First Series. They are all signed: 'Geo. Mair, archt., May 1848'. Drawings include: plan of footing and drains; basement plan; ground plan; first floor plan; second floor plan; plan of roofs; north elevation; east elevation; west elevation showing additional buildings over the offices; transverse section C-D on plans and longitudinal section A-B.

Mair , George , fl 1844-1848 , architect
GB 0074 CLC/B/139 · Collection · [1820]-1837

Architectural sketch and notebooks of Richard Kelsey, architect, containing annotated designs for, and sketches of, houses, theatres, prisons, bridges and sewers; plans and elevations of existing buildings by other architects, ancient and modern; drawings of medieval funeral effigies; extracts from writers on architecture and history; accounts for work done for customers; estimates; accounts for materials and workmen employed; and miscellaneous unrelated memoranda.

Kelsey , Richard , fl 1820-1837 , architect
GB 0074 O/487 · Collection · 1829

Copy of seal of Independent Gas Light and Coke Company, 1829.

Independent Gas Light and Coke Company , 1824-1876
GB 0074 CLC/255 · Collection · 1800-1835

Drawings of seals of monastic bodies in London, Southwark and Westminster. The drawings are by Howlett, the descriptions by his friend and patron John Caley, FRS.

Howlett , Bartholomew , 1767-1827 , draughtsman and landscape engraver
N/C/12 · Collection · 1850-1920

Records of Horbury Congregational Chapel, Kensington Park Road, including correspondence relating to expenses of erection of chapel and general finances, 1850-1869; correspondence relating to a dispute between Reverend F.W. Pitt and the congregation, with subsequent intervention of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1914; further correspondence and notes relating to the dispute including a subsidiary quarrel and case between Reverend F.W. Pitt and Reverend H.A. Powell, 1915-1920; copies of 'The Bible Crusade/Quarterly Message', 1917-1919 and engraving of architect's drawing of chapel, 1860?

Congregational Church of England and Wales
FOWLER HODGSON {ARCHITECTS}
GB 0074 B/HF · Collection · 1892-1920

Records of Hodgson Fowler, architects, 1892-1920. The records consist of plans of the following London churches: Saint Barnabas, Dulwich; All Saints, Newington; All Saints, Notting Hill and Saint Columb, Notting Hill. Where these firms were responsible for the initial building or for extensive alterations, a full ground plan and elevation of the church is given.

Hodgson Fowler , architects x Wood and Oakley , architects
GB 0074 B/FN · Collection · 1899-1935

Records of Fowler and Sutton, architects, 1899-1935. The records are plans, elevations, drawings and photographs of several churches, vicarages and parochial halls in South London that the firm worked on, including:

  • Proposed new church and hall, Saint Faith, Sunray Avenue, Herne Hill, Camberwell
  • Parochial hall of Saint Giles Camberwell in Brunswick Grove
  • Parochial hall of Saint Paul, Herne Hill, Camberwell
  • Church of the Epiphany, Stockwell, Lambeth
  • Church, parochial hall, etc. of Saint Hilda Crofton Park, Lewisham
  • Vicarage and parochial hall of Saint Mark, Clarendon Rise, Lewisham
  • Church of Saint John, Larcom Street, Walworth, Southwark
  • Sunday school and Church club of Saint Stephen, Villa Street, Walworth, Southwark
  • Proposed new church of Saint John the Divine, Garratt Lane, Earlsfield, Wandsworth
  • Church of Saint Paul Furzedown, Wandsworth
  • Parochial hall of Saint Paul Furzedown
  • Vicarage of Saint Paul Furzedown
  • Church of Saint Nicholas Plumstead, Woolwich
  • Parochial hall of Saint Nicholas Plumstead
  • Vicarage of Saint Nicholas Plumstead
  • Parochial hall of Saint James, Moore Park, Fulham
Fowler and Sutton , architects
EAST LONDON WATER WORKS
GB 0074 ACC/1387 · Collection · 1899-1903

Records of the East London Water Works Company, 1899-1903, consisting of contract drawings and a timetable of a visit made by members of Portsmouth Water Works Company to East London Water Works.

East London Water Works Company
GB 0074 ACC/2358 · Collection · 1902-1918

Records of architects Cubitt Nichols, Sons and Chuter, comprising plans and drawings of shops and offices, mainly on Glasshouse Street, Brewer Street and Air Street, 1902-1918.

Cubitt Nichols, Sons and Chuter , architects
GB 0074 B/CDW · Collection · 1889-1912

Records of Cowell, Drewett and Wheatley, architects, 1889-1912. The records are plans and drawings of alterations and additions to the following churches: Holy Trinity, Chelsea; Saint Augustine's, Kilburn; and Saint Peter, Ealing.

Cowell, Drewitt and Wheatley , architects
BROWN, K C (fl 1935)
GB 0074 ACC/3497 · Collection · 1935

Plans and drawings for the proposed redevelopment of the area of Paddington north of the Great Western Railway and south of the Grand Junction Canal and dissected by the Harrow Road. The proposals are for replacement of narrow congested streets and small houses with a dual carriage speedway and blocks of flats with open ground in-between them.

Brown , K C , fl 1935 , architect
BORNAT, Charles (1909-2000)
GB 0074 LMA/4312 · Collection · 1931

Dissertation by Charles Bornat, architecture student. It comprises a comprehensive survey of old London doorways, 1660-1810, and includes sketches and photographs by Bornat.

Bornat , Charles , 1909-2000 , architect