Bruce A. Bailey

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Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA (born March 1937) [1] 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. [2] He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust. [3]

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Early life

Bruce Bailey was born in Northampton.[ citation needed ]

Professional work

Bailey works as Archivist/Librarian at Drayton House, a Grade I listed stately home near Lowick, Northamptonshire; he also does archival work for the Spencer family's Althorp Estate. [4]

Photographs by Bailey of buildings in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Herefordshire are held in the Historic England Archive. [5] Photographs by him are also held in the Conway Library archive of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, currently undergoing a digitisation project known as Courtauld Connects. [6] Around 70 of his photographs of monuments and statues can be viewed on the Courtauld's Art & Architecture website. [7]

Publications

Sole author

Co-author

Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides

Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present

References

  1. "FreeBMD - Search". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  2. "Mr Bruce Bailey". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. "Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust - Trustees". www.nhct.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  4. "Bailey, Bruce | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  5. "Bruce Bailey Collection (BLY01) Archive Collection | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  6. "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  7. "A&A | Search Results". www.artandarchitecture.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  8. Greenall, R. L (1979). A history of Northamptonshire. London: Phillimore. ISBN   9780850333497. OCLC   568046999.
  9. Whinney, Margaret (1992). Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. S.L.: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-05318-0. OCLC   493114488.
  10. "Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903), rural improver and gardener" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66117. ISBN   978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 24 September 2020.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. "Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction" (PDF). Furniture History Society.