File NLW MS 16635B - Staffordshire architect's account book

Identity area

Reference code

NLW MS 16635B

Title

Staffordshire architect's account book

Date(s)

  • 1754-1756 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

105 ff. with insertions (ff. 70 verso-104 inverted text) ; 185 x 120 mm.

Vellum over boards with remains of brass clasp; '1754. 1755', 'also [?May 1764]' (ink on back cover).

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

'Chas Trubshaw 1754' inside front cover.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

R. L. Gapper; Aberystwyth; Donation (with NLW MS 16636C and NLW Amryw 33/9); March 1957

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Account book, 1754-1756, of Charles Cope Trubshaw, architect, builder and mason, relating to work carried out mostly in Staffordshire.
The volume contains accounts, with notes and memoranda, January 1754-February 1756 (ff. 1-70); and estimates, notes and sketched designs and plans for specific projects, 1754-1755 (ff. 70 verso-103, inverted text). There are numerous references to the building of the new parish church at Stone, Staffordshire (ff. 6-89 passim). A few additional items are loose within the volume (ff. 73a, 105) or have been tipped in (f. 104).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Bindings disintegrating; covers and spine in distressed condition; ff. 9-10 loose.

Finding aids

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

Digital version available http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5722924 (July 2021)

Related units of description

For Trubshaw's designs for the Great Hall at Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, see London, Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library, SD47/42.

Related descriptions

Notes area

Note

Title based on contents.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 16635B.

Alternative identifier(s)

Virtua system control number

vtls004433689

Access points

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rules and/or conventions used

Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

October 2006 and July 2013.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Archivist's note

Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.

Accession area