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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: William Butterfield architectural and design drawings
Creator:
Butterfield, William, 1814-1900
Identifier/Call Number: 850998
Physical Description:
290 items
Date (inclusive): 1838-1896
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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Language of Material: French
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.
Arranged in five series: Series I. Building designs; Series II. Ecclesiastical objects; Series III. Estimates; Series IV.
Memorials; Series V. Record drawings.
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.
Processed by Alan Tomlinson.
Acquired in 1985.
William Butterfield architectural and design drawings, 1814-1900, Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 850998.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850998
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Schools -- Designs and plans.
Design drawings
Church buildings
Church architecture -- Designs and plans
Hospital buildings -- Designs and plans.
Church decoration and ornament
Architecture, Medieval -- Great Britain.
Architecture—Great Britain—19th century
Rugby School