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Senate House Library, University of London

Underdown ecclesiastical architecture and design collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1149

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Underdown ecclesiastical architecture and design collection

Date(s): c 1760-1901

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Underdown | W

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The collection was purchased from W. Underdown but nothing is known about him beyond that.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Underdown ecclesiastical architecture and design collection, c 1760-1901, (bought from H. W. Underdown) includes: reproduction of print of Witham Friary (1760); print of drawing by Catton of Cromer, 1798; plate of engravings of arms and seals of Prior and Convent of St Saviour, Bermondsey, 1821; drawing of brass monument in North Mimms church (1823); photolithographs of monumental brasses in Norfolk and Westminster Abbey (1890s). Collection also includes prints of J. M. W. Turner watercolours painted at Farnley Hall.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Fonds level description

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Transferred from Senate House Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Senate House Library.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2007-06-08


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Building design | Construction engineering
Engravings | Visual materials
Lithographs | Visual materials
Prints | Visual materials
Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Cromer alias Shipden | Norfolk | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe