Bridget Cherry OBE FSA Hon. FRIBA (born 17 May 1941) is a British architectural historian who was series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides from 1971 until 2002, and is the author or co-author of several volumes in the series. [1] [2]
Cherry is the elder sister of the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. [3] She studied history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, matriculating in 1960. [4] She went on to study History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, specialising in English Romanesque architecture. [5]
Cherry began work on the Buildings of England series as Nikolaus Pevsner's research assistant in 1968, and from 1971 to 2002 was the series editor. She revised several volumes including Surrey, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Devon and Wiltshire, and authored or co-authored four of the London volumes (South, North-West, North and East). [6]
Cherry is vice-president of the Heritage of London Trust, a Council member of the London Topographical Society and a member of the board of the Ironbridge Heritage Trust. She is a life trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum, London. [7] Cherry previously served as a commissioner for English Heritage, the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England and as a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces. [2] Following her retirement, she edits the London Topographical Society's newsletter. [8]
Cherry was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. [9]
She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries [10] and since 1993 a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. [11]
Cherry contributed photographs to the Conway Library, a collection of images of architectural interest now held by the Courtauld Institute of Art. [21]
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Edward Horton Hubbard was an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England. He also wrote the definitive biography of John Douglas, and played a part in the preservation of Albert Dock in Liverpool.
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John West Hugall was an English Gothic Revival architect from Yorkshire.
Captain William Charles Braxton Sinclair FRIBA was a British architect who worked in the United Kingdom and in Burma, where he was a captain in the Royal Engineers. He was also a local historian.
Samuel Angell was a British architect and archaeologist.
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John Arthur Newman was an English architectural historian. He was the author of several of the Pevsner Architectural Guides and was the advisory editor to the series.
The Church of St Michael and all Angels, Garton on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is a church of medieval origins that was built c.1132 for the prior of Kirkham Abbey. Long connected to the Sykes family of Sledmere, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet engaged John Loughborough Pearson to undertake a major reconstruction of the building in 1856–1857. Sykes son, the fifth baronet, employed George Edmund Street to design a series of murals for interior decoration, depicting a range of bible stories. The murals, "dirty and decaying" when Nikolaus Pevsner recorded the church in his 1972 East Yorkshire volume for the Buildings of England series, were restored in 1985–1991 in Pevsner's memory by the Pevsner Memorial Trust.
Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA is an English author, architectural historian, archivist, librarian, freelance lecturer and photographer. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2003. He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust.
Roderick O'Donnell is an architectural historian currently working as a freelance writer, lecturer and adviser. O'Donnell is an expert on the works of the English architect, Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) and has published extensively on this subject.
2, Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, in the London Borough of Camden, is a 19th-century terraced house. It was the London home of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian, from 1936 until his death in 1983. Pevsner is commemorated by a blue plaque on the building's exterior.