Scope and Content of Collection
A broadly representative selection of drawings for building and manufacture of designs,
representing the various types of commissions Butterfield received and illustrating his work
in promoting Gothic Revival. Also included are building estimates as well as record drawings
(measured drawings) of buildings not designed by Butterfield.
Building designs include drawings for 25 projects: churches and chapels, schools and
hospitals. 58 plans, elevations, sections, and details (altars, screens, choir stalls,
pavement patterns, pulpits, fonts, etc.) document the following church and chapel buildings:
Severn-Stoke Church, 1838-1839; All Saints, Babbacombe, Devon, 1865-1874 (3); All Saints,
Hastings, 1888-1889 (1); Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, 1885-1888 (1); Balliol College Chapel,
Oxford, ca. 1856 (1); Caterham Barracks Chapel, 1885-1887 (3); Christ Church, Albany St.,
London, 1883-1884 (2); Dalton, Yorkshire, 1868 (1); Fulham Palace Chapel, ca. 1864-1867; St.
Andrew's, Rugby, ca. 1877 (4); St. Alban's, Baldwins Gardens, ca. 1855 (1); St. Augustine's,
Bournemouth, 1891-1892 (1); St. Augustine's, South Kensington, London, ca. 1870 (5); St.
Bartholomew Hyde, Winchester, 1865 (1); St. Bee's, Cumberland, 1886 (1); St. Clement's,
Hastings, 1872-1876 (1); St. Denis, East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, ca. 1874 (8); St. Mary
Magdalene, Enfield, 1881-1883 (3); St. Mary's Warwick, 1886 (1); St. Michael's, Winchester,
1879-1882 (1); Sedgebarrow, Worcestershire, 1867-1868 (1); Shaw, Berkshire, 1875-1878 (1);
Tottenham All Hallows Church, 1875 (1); Winchester College, Large Chapel (1); also
unidentified designs, including a design for a sculpture on the theme of the Passion, 1877.
120 drawings document designs for St. Michael's Hospital, Axbridge, Somerset (1878-1882) and
Rugby School (1867-1885).
Ecclesiastical objects designed by Butterfield are documented with drawings of furnishings
and ritual objects. Butterfield's designs for church plate were adapted for use
internationally, representative examples having been published by the Ecclesiological
Society (formerly the Cambridge Camden Society) between 1847 and 1856. Many have materials
and sizes indicated. The types represented: alms dish (3); altar frontal (1); candlestick
(9); cathedra (1); chalice, paten and alms dish (3); communion service (1); cruet (1); desk
(3); ewer (1); flagon (5); hinge (1); lectern (11); lighting fixture (16); litany stool (1);
memorial (6); vase (4).
Estimates include 10 letters about manufacture of objects and work with contractors. A few
drawings in other series include attached estimates.
Memorials include six identified designs and a memorial in Romsey Abbey for an
unidentified person.
Record drawings, not by Butterfield, document Great Mongeham Church, Kent (14 drawings)
and St. John the Baptist, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire (17 items), prepared for the 1844
publication on the building by the Oxford Architectural Society as an example of the English
Gothic style. Also, one original print after a drawing by Butterfield of the Shottesbrooke
Church.
Arrangement note
Arranged in five series:
Series I. Building designs;
Series II. Ecclesiastical objects;
Series III. Estimates;
Series IV.
Memorials;
Series
V. Record drawings
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