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Add MS 6742
- Record Id:
- 032-003442798
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442798
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x000521
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6742
- Title:
- Architectural sketches, in pen and ink
- Scope & Content:
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In quarto, ff. 38, containing architectural sketches by Mr. Kerrich, in pen and ink:
1. A series of sketches (copies), of parts of churches, chiefly arches and windows. f. 1.The illustrations are from the following churches:
St. Martin’s, Canterbury. f. 1. Dunstable. Ibid. Ely. f. 2. Lindisfarne. Ibid. Stowe, county Lincolnshire. ff. 2, 7. Westminster Abbey. f. 3. Micklegate, Yorkshire. Ibid. Southwell, county Nottinghamshire. f. 4. Hitchenden, county Buckinghamshire. f. 4. Hunmanby, county Yorkshire. f. 5. Clerkenwell. Ibid.St. Mary’s Hill, Hamford. f. 6. Peterborough Cathedral. Ibid. Durham Cathedral. f. 7. Essington, county Gloucestershire. Ibid.
2. Drawings (originals) from the churches of South Lapham and Gissing, county Norfolk. ff. 8, 10.
3. Notes concerning Windham Abbey, county Norfolk (from Blomefield). f. 9.
4. ‘Architectural Miscellanies’ (originals) viz. ground plan of pillars in St. Edward’s Church, Cambridge, f. 11; sketch, ground plan, and details, of the old house at Dersingham, called Brook Hall, in which Mr. Kerrich was born, ff. 12-13; chronological notes upon Worcester Cathedral, with ground plan, and elevation, of ditto, ff. 13b, 14; notes concerning free masonry, ib.; ground plan of Seville Cathedral (from Pony), f. 15; the spire of St. Mary’s, Stamford, ib.; ground plan, and details, of Coton Church, near Cambridge, f. 16; and ground plan of Fretton Church, county Suffolk, f. 17.
5. Drawings of painted glass from Rampton Church, county Cambridgeshire, Wheatacre Church, county Norfolk (tinted), Landbeach Church, county Cambridgeshire, and Salisbury Cathedral. ff. 18, 19.
6. Drawings of ancient tessellated pavements, tiles, etc. from the life of Christ, printed at Antwerp, 1488, from the Church of Ickleton, county Cambridgeshire, from engravings by Israel von Meckenheim, and from Rochester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. ff. 20-23.
7. Plans, and sections, of Tristernagh Abbey, Ireland, and Abergavenny Priory, county Monmouthshire. ff. 24, 25.
8. Sketches of Saxon and Norman architecture, viz. views of the front of the cathedral of St. David’s (from Grose); of a doorway near Malmsbury Abbey (etching); of the old church at Dover Castle; of an archway in Axminster Church, county Devon (from Carter); of an archway in Kilkhampton Church, Cornwall (from Antiquities and Cabinet); of the West end of the cathedral at Worms (from Moller); of part of Chichester Cathedral; of part of the cloister of the church of Aschaffenburg (from Moller); and elevations, sections and plan of the vestibule of the abbey of Lorch (from Moller). ff. 26-36.
9. Drawings of painted glass, in a window of Magdalen College Lodge, Cambridge (tinted). ff. 37, 38.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442798
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442798
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (38 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- [18th century-19th century]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Quarto
- Custodial History:
- Add MS 6728 to Add MS 6776, inclusive, were bequeathed by Rev. Thomas Kerrich, Keeper of the Public Library, Cambridge, in 1828
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.