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The Council for the Care of Churches.Gordon Lansdown Barnes (c1917-1985) was an ecclesiologist, a local historian and an architectural photographer with a national reputation. Much of his photographic work can be found in the National Monuments Record. His published works include Stepney Churches (1967), and Frederick Preedy, Architect and Glass-Painter 1820-1898 (1984). He also worked with Canon Basil Clarke on 'Demolished and Desecrated Churches of London'. He was Secretary to the Worcester Diocesan Advisory Committee from 1979. His collections of books and MSS were bequeathed to the Council for the Care of Churches and his photographs to the National Monuments Record.
When examined the Barnes papers were stored in 22 box files and a further five card boxes. The boxes themselves are not numbered but the reference numbers are those which have been given to the papers. The collection includes numerous papers relating to the Victorian church architects Henry Woodyer (1816-1896) and Frederick Preedy (1820-1898), Victorian stained glass artists and a number of Victorian architects. It also includes an extensive collection of papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs and plans relating to churches in the London area. The collection also includes eighteen notebooks.
The Council for the Care of Churches was founded as the central co-ordinating body for the Diocesan Advisory Committees for the Care of Churches in 1921. It is now a permanent commission of the Church of England's governing body, the General Synod, and has a wide variety of functions, both statutory and advisory. The Library of the Council for the Care of Churches is housed in the Council's offices in Fielden House, 13 Little College Street, London SW1P 3SH.
This list was compiled following a visit to the Library by Dr Andrew Lewis and Dr Hazel Bagworth-Mann in connection with a survey of the papers of British antiquaries, archaeologists and historians being undertaken by the Commission. The Commission is most grateful to the Council for the Care of Churches, and to Miss Janet Seeley (Librarian) for her assistance.
[BOX FILE 1] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/1/1-3
Biographical papers.
HW/2
Newspaper cuttings relating to mid-nineteenth-century churches designed or restored by Woodyer. (Arranged alphabetically.)
[BOX FILE 2] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/3/1-17
Miscellaneous documents relating to Woodyer churches.
[BOX FILE 3] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/4
Album containing postcards of Woodyer churches. (Arranged alphabetically by place.)
[BOX FILE 4] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/5
Guidebooks to churches and other religious buildings, convents, hospitals, chapels etc for which Woodyer was either architect or was involved in designing.
[BOX FILE 5] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/6/1-7
Miscellaneous papers relating to Woodyer buildings other than churches, in particular country houses. (Arranged alphabetically by title.)
HW/6/7a
Woodyer correspondence. Letters from Woodyer, including some photocopies, mainly to officials of Incorporated Church Buildings Society in response to their reports on his designs. Other correspondence includes letters to his Clerk-of-Works or incumbents of his churches. (Arranged alphabetically by place.)
HW/6/7b/1-30
Woodyer correspondence. Letters (30) 1851-79 and nd, mainly from Woodyer to stained glass designer J Hardman. Other correspondence includes letters to his Clerk-of Works and other incumbents of his churches.
HW/6/7b/31-6
Letters (6) 1850-79, to J Hardman from various incumbents.
HW/7c
Woodyer correspondence. Typescripts of letters (62) 1849-52 and nd, to his Clerk- of -Works. (Housed in the over-size collection.)
HW/7d
Woodyer correspondence. Letters 1869-71, all photocopies except two, from Woodyer mainly to trustees/incumbents of St Mary's Church, Chiddingfold, Surrey.
HW/8
Woodyer correspondence. Letters 1846-87 relating to Woodyer churches, mainly from incumbents of Woodyer designed churches. (Arranged alphabetically by place.)
[BOX FILE 6] 'Henry Woodyer material'
HW/9-10
Woodyer correspondence.
HW/10/1-7
Lists of Woodyer churches.
[BOX FILE 7]
112/
Gordon Barnes notebooks (18 volumes).
[BOX FILE 8] 'Frederick Preedy material'
FP/1/1-7
Biographical papers.
FP/2
Newspaper cuttings relating to Preedy churches/windows (1 bound volume).
FP/3/1-6
Miscellaneous documents relating to Preedy churches/windows.
FP/4-4e
Preedy correspondence.
[BOX FILE 9] 'Frederick Preedy material'
FP/5a
Letters (40) 1983 and nd, to Gordon Barnes from various correspondents.
FP/5b
Letters (12) 1983 except 2, to Gordon Barnes.
FP/6/1-4
Lists of Preedy churches.
FP/7/1-9
Ground plans of Preedy churches.
[BOX FILE 10] 'Papers relating to Victorian Stained Glass Artists'
VSG/1
General papers
JH/1-2
John Hardman
CEK/1-2
Charles Eamer Kempe
ALM/1
Arthur Louis Moore
GR/1-2
George Rogers
AS/1
Albert Saunders
[BOX 11] 'Papers relating to minor Victorian Architects'
JSA/1/1-2
John Samuel Alder
FB/1
Francis Bacon
WB/1
William Butterfield
JC/1
Joseph Clarke
CUTTS/1-4
John Edward Knight Cutts and John Priston Cutts
HEA/1-3
Thomas Healey, Thomas Henry Healey and Francis Healey
JH/1
John Hicks
ELB/1
Edward Buckton Lamb
[BOX FILE 12] 'Papers relating to minor Victorian Architects'
MB/1
George Mallinson and WS Barber
MH/1/1-2
George Mallinson and Thomas Healey
JLP/1-3
John Loughborough Pearson
PB/1
Perkin and Backhouse
PE/1
Richard Popplewell Pullan and George Evans
RHS/1
Robert H Shout
SST/1
Samuel Sanders Teulon
[BOX FILES 13-22] contain newspaper cuttings, photographs, notes, plans and miscellaneous documents and papers relating to London churches.
[BOX FILE 13]
City of London Churches
CLC/1/1-30
[BOX FILE 14]
City of London Churches
A-J
[BOX FILE 15]
City of London Churches
K-V
[BOX FILE 16]
North London Churches
B-W
[BOX FILE 17]
North London Churches
B-W
[BOX FILE 18]
North London Churches
B-P
[BOX FILE 19]
North London Churches
P-W
[BOX FILE 20]
South London Churches
B-W
[BOX FILE 21]
South London Churches
B-W
[BOX FILE 22]
London Episcopal Chapels
LEC/Gen/1/1-6 General
LEC/FUL/1/1 Fulham
LEC/HOL/1/1-4 Holborn
LEC/KENT/ 1E1-3 Kensington
LEC- LAM/1/1 Lambeth
LEC-PAD/1/1 Paddington
LEC/SM/1/1-5 St Marylebone
LEC/SP/1/1-3 St Pancras
LEC/SOU/1/1 Southwark
LEC/STEP/1/1 Stepney
LEC/WEST/1/1-9 Westminster
Five further card boxes
[BOXES 1-2]
Photographs of churches outside London.
[BOX 3]
112 A-B
2 notebooks of church notes, 'The Churches of London c1959-69'. Part 1 contains information relating to churches north of the River. Part 2 contains information relation to churches south of the River.
[BOXES 4-5]
HW/11/1-49
Plans and papers relating to Woodyer churches.