GUILD OF MEMORIAL CRAFTSMEN

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4074
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GUILD OF MEMORIAL CRAFTSMEN
Date(s)	: 1937-1983
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.45 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Guild of Memorial Craftsmen

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Guild of Memorial Craftsmen was established in 1949. Its aim and objectives were:
-To use its best endeavours and to do everything to the best of its ability to raise the Standard of Memorial design and craftsmanship and disseminate knowledge in relation thereto.
-To publish and circulate to the general public and in particular to Ecclesiastical and Cemetery Authorities brochures and literature.
-To use its best endeavours to promote by all suitable means the education of public taste in the matter of improved design and craftsmanship and to hold meetings with this aim in view.
-To do everything it legitimately can to further the interest of its members and to employ its funds for that purpose.

The Guild's business, including election of members, was run by a court. The court was elected annually at the AGM and consisted of not more than 12 Guildsmen including the Master and the Warden. Membership was open to all practising sculptors, carvers and memorial craftsmen.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Guild of Memorial Craftsmen records including minutes and AGMs dating from 1949, a register of members, a short series of accounts and balance sheets and a nice series of photographs showing the work of members.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records have been arranged in the following order :
Administration LMA/4074/A;
Finance LMA/4074/B;
Publications LMA/4074/C;
Photographs LMA/4074/D.

Conditions governing access:

The records are open and available for consultation.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with The Guild of Memorial Craftsmen.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in December 1998.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
June to August 2010.