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INVENTORY OF THE WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD ARCHITECTURAL AND
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Title: William Butterfield
architectural and design drawings
Date (inclusive): 1838-1892
Collection number: 850998
Creator:
Butterfield, William, 1814-1900
Extent:
290 items
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Abstract: British architect. Butterfield's drawings and estimates partially document 25 architectural projects (churches, schools, and
hospitals), and 67 drawings are designs for ecclesiastical objects. The collection represents the types of commissions Butterfield
received and
illustrates his promotion of the Gothic Revival style.
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William Butterfield architectural and design drawings, 1814-1900,
Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no850998.
Acquired in 1985.
Processed by Alan Tomlinson.
Biographical / Historical Note
William Butterfield (1814-1900) was a British architect known for the
Gothic revival style he championed. He studied with E. L. Blackburne and set
up his own practice in 1840. A member of the Cambridge Camden Society, later
the Ecclesiastical Society, he contributed designs to their journal
The Ecclesiologist. Most of his work was for church designs,
apart from that for schools and colleges (Rugby School and Keble College
Oxford), and the Winchester County Hospital. Perhaps his best-known building is
the All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London (1849-1859). The Royal Institute
of British Architects awarded the Gold Medal to Butterfield in 1884.
Scope and Content of Collection
A broadly representative selection of drawings and 21 estimates 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 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 11 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
Arranged in five series:
Series I. Building designs
Series II. Ecclesiastical objects
Series III. Estimates
Series IV. Memorials
Series V. Record drawings
Rugby School
Architecture—Great
Britain—19th century
Architecture,
Medieval—Great Britain.
Church architecture—Designs
and plans
Church buildings
Church decoration and
ornament
Hospital buildings—Designs
and plans.
Schools—Designs and
plans.
Architectural
drawings
Design
drawings