Notebooks of E W Lovegrove relating to church architecture
Reference code
LOV
Title
Notebooks of E W Lovegrove relating to church architecture
Date
1883-1955
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Four boxes.
Scope and content
Notebooks, drawings and papers of Edwin William Lovegrove, FSA (1868-1956), relating to church architecture. Lovegrove was headmaster of Ruthin school, Denbighshire, from 1913-30. For his career see Who Was Who 1951-60. His publications included 'St. Asaph Cathedral', Arch. Cambrensis, 76 (1921), 215-36; 'St. David's Cathedral', ibid., 77 (1922), 360-82; 'Valle Crucis Abbey: its position in Monasticism: the men who built it', ibid., 91, pt. 1 (1936), 1-14; 'Church architecture of the Carolingian period', JBAA, N. S. 39, pt. 2 (1934), 330-51. A detailed description of the collection is in SAL.
Creator
Lovegrove, Edwin William (1868-1956), schoolmaster and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/970/1-13
MS 970
MS 970
Archival history
Presented by Kathleen Lovegrove, widow of the compiler, August 1967.
Related units of description
A large collection of photographs of St David's has been sent to the RCHM (Wales).
Contents
- LOV/01 - Notebooks
- LOV/02 - Sketchbooks
- LOV/03 - Notebooks on British church architecture
- LOV/04 - Material relating to Neath Abbey
- LOV/05 - Material on St David's cathedral
- LOV/06 - Material on Chester cathedral
- LOV/07 - Draft article on Carolingian architecture
- LOV/08 - Material on Welsh churches
- LOV/09 - Material on Somerset and Gloucestershire
- LOV/10 - Correspondence
- LOV/11 - Excavation Committees
- LOV/12 - Paper by Helen Donovan on The Guggle, Northleach
- LOV/13 - Material on Southwell Minster