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INVENTORY OF THE ERNEST BORN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF MEDIEVAL AISLED TIMBER HALLS, ca. 1944-ca. 1981
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Title: Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls
Date (inclusive): ca. 1944-ca. 1981
Collection number: 920089
Creator:
Born, Ernest, 1898-
Extent:
ca. 800 items
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Abstract: Architect and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Architectural drawings document English, French, and Dutch
and Belgian vernacular buildings of the 13th and 14th centuries, including churches, tithe barns, manor halls, hospitals,
and market halls.
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Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls, ca. 1944-ca. 1981, Getty Research Institute, Research
Library, Accession no. 920089.
Acquired in 1992 from the Born estate.
Processed when acquired. Finer processing and arrangement by Hillary Brown, 1997.
Walter Horn papers, 1917-1989. Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 920087.
Ernest Born (1898-) was an architect, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a frequent collaborator of
Walter Horn, whose related papers the repository also holds. One of their best-known collaborations resulted in the exhaustive
study,
The Plan of St. Gall, 1979. They also wrote on medieval timber hall structures in the 1965 publication,
Barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at its granges of Great Coxwell & Beaulieu-St. Leonards.
A series of architectural drawings, executed in ink and pencil, of 13th and 14th centuries English, French, Dutch and Belgian
vernacular buildings, consisting of ground plans, site plans, structural details, and elevations, some 800 items in all, as
well as some photostats, photographs, and maps. Produced in collaboration with Walter Horn as part of an unpublished study
of medieval 3-aisled timber halls, they document churches, tithe barns, manor halls, hospitals, and market halls, representing
over fifty buildings, 30 English, 20 French, one Dutch, and one Belgian.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by countries, in 3 series:
Series I: Architectural drawings: French barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981;
Series II. Architectural drawings: Dutch and Belgian barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981;
Series III. Architectural drawings: English barns, ca. 1944-ca. 1981.
Architecture, Medieval—England
Architecture, Medieval—France
Barns
Markets—England
Markets—France
Vernacular architecture—England
Vernacular architecture—France
Barn of Great Coxwell (Great Coxwell, England)
Beaulieu Abbey
Church of St. James and St. Paul (Marton, Cheshire, England)
Grange de Vaulerent (Seine-et-Oise, France)
Great Hall (Leicester Castle, Leicester, England)
St. Mary's Hospital (Chichester, England)
St. Oswald's Church (Lower Peover, England)
Ter Doest (Cistercian abbey : Lissewege, Belgium)
Architectural drawings
Maps
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Stats (copies)
Born, Ernest, 1898-
Horn, Walter William, 1908-
Walter Horn Papers, 1917-1989, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 920087.