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William Butterfield

{{Short description|British architect (1814–1900)}}

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{{Infobox architect

| name = William Butterfield

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1814|9|7}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1900|2|23|1814|9|7}}

| death_place = London, England

| resting_place = Tottenham Cemetery

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| significant_buildings = St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in Scotland
St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in Australia

| significant_projects = Keble College, Oxford

| awards = Royal Gold Medal (1884)

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William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900) was a British Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement). He is noted for his use of polychromy.

Biography

William Butterfield was born in London in 1814. His parents were strict non-conformists who ran a chemist's shop in the Strand. He was one of nine children and was educated at a local school. At the age of 16, he was apprenticed to Thomas Arber, a builder in Pimlico, who later became bankrupt. He studied architecture under E. L. Blackburne (1833–1836). From 1838 to 1839, he was an assistant to Harvey Eginton, an architect in Worcester, where he became articled. He established his own architectural practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1840.

From 1842 Butterfield was involved with the Cambridge Camden Society, later The Ecclesiological Society. He contributed designs to the Society's journal, The Ecclesiologist. His involvement influenced his architectural style. He also drew religious inspiration from the Oxford Movement and as such, he was very high church despite his non-conformist upbringing. He was a Gothic revival architect, and as such he reinterpreted the original Gothic style in Victorian terms. Many of his buildings were for religious use, although he also designed for colleges and schools.

Butterfield's church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, was, in the view of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the building that initiated the High Victorian Gothic era. It was designed in 1850, completed externally by 1853 and consecrated in 1859. Flanked by a clergy house and school, it was intended as a "model" church by its sponsors, the Ecclesiological Society. The church was built of red-brick, a material long out of use in London, patterned with bands of black brick, the first use of polychrome brick in the city, with bands of stone on the spire. The interior was even more richly decorated, with marble and tile marquetry.

In 1849, just before Butterfield designed the church, John Ruskin had published his Seven Lamps of Architecture, in which he had urged the study of Italian Gothic and the use of polychromy. Many contemporaries perceived All Saints' as Italian in character, though in fact it combines fourteenth century English details, with a German-style spire.

Also in 1850 he designed, without polychromy, St Matthias' in Stoke Newington, with a bold gable-roofed tower. At St Bartholomew's, Yealmpton in the same year, Butterfield used a considerable amount of marquetry work for the interior, and built striped piers, using two colours of marble.Hitchcock 1977, pages 247–8

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At Oxford, Butterfield designed Keble College, in a style radically divergent from the university's existing traditions of Gothic architecture, its walls boldly striped with various colours of brick. Intended for clerical students, it was largely built in 1868–70, on a fairly domestic scale, with a more monumental chapel of 1873–6. In his buildings of 1868–72 at Rugby School, the polychromy is even more brash.Hitchock 1977, page 264

Butterfield received the RIBA Gold Medal in 1884. He died in London in 1900, and was buried in a simple Gothic tomb (designed by himself) in Tottenham Cemetery, Haringey, North London.{{National Heritage List for England| num=1084329 |desc=Tomb of William Butterfield in Tottenham Cemetery, Church Lane |accessdate=27 January 2022}} The grave can be easily seen from the public path through the cemetery, close to the gate from Tottenham Churchyard. There is a blue plaque on his house in Bedford Square, London.

Works

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Butterfield's buildings include:

  • 1842
  • Highbury Congregational Chapel (Cotham Church), Bristol{{English Heritage List entry |num= 1282286 |desc= Cotham Church |grade= |accessdate=19 May 2017}}
  • 1843
  • St John's Church, Jedburgh: lychgate{{Cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200380198-pleasance-st-johns-episcopal-church-with-lych-gate-and-boundary-wall-jedburgh|title=Pleasance, St John's Episcopal Church with Lych Gate and Boundary Wall, Jedburgh, Scottish Borders|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-14}}
  • 1845
  • St Saviour's Church and vicarage, Coalpit Heath, south Gloucestershire, 1845 (Butterfield's first Anglican work){{cite web|title=Beginnings|url=http://coalpitheath.org.uk/beginnings|publisher=St Saviour's Church|location=Coalpit Heath|date=August 2008|access-date=2016-12-20|archive-date=15 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015072458/http://coalpitheath.org.uk/beginnings|url-status=dead}}
  • St Augustine's College, Canterbury, Kent, 1845Homan 1984, page 106
  • St John the Baptist parish church, Hellidon, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1845–47Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 252
  • 1846
  • St Nicholas' Church, Thanington Without, Kent: restoration, 1846
  • St Nicholas' Church, Ash, Kent: restoration, 1846
  • Abbey Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1846–53Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 579–583
  • 1847
  • St Andrew's parish church, Ogbourne St Andrew, Wiltshire: restoration, 1847–49Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 365 and vicarage, 1848Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 366
  • Parish Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund, Horfield, Bristol, nave and aisles c1847
  • 1849
  • St Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton, Devon, PL8 2HG, reconstruction 1849–1852
  • The Cathedral of the Isles, Great Cumbrae, Scotland, started 1849 but still incomplete
  • St Edmund's Church, Thurlaston, Warwickshire. Built as a combined church and school.
  • St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary, Devon restoration 1849–1850{{cite news |author= |title=Ottery St Mary |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000267/18500330/014/0005 |newspaper=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |location=Exeter |date=30 March 1850 |access-date=14 September 2015 }}
  • 1850
  • Goldern Lion Hotel (1850) in the Norfolk sea-side town of Hunstanton.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1342241 |desc=Golden Lion Hotel |access-date=30 April 2021}}
  • St Mary Magdalene church, West Lavington, West Sussex, 1850
  • St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland, 1850
  • St James & St Anne parish church and vicarage, Alfington, Devon, 1850
  • Wantage Cemetery, Berkshire: chapel, 1850Pevsner, 1966, page 253
  • 1851
  • St Mary's Church, Emmorton, Maryland: stained glass windows, 1851
  • St Martin's Church, Great Mongeham, Kent: restoration, 1851
  • 1853
  • St Mary and St Melor parish church, Amesbury, Wiltshire: restoration, 1852–1853Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 90
  • All Saints' Wykeham, Scarborough, 1853–1855{{cite book|last=Rhea|first=Nicholas|title=Portrait of the North Yorkshire Moors|year=1985}}
  • Milton Ernest Hall, Bedfordshire, 1853–1858
  • St Mary's Church, Langley, Kent, 1853
  • 1854
  • St Paul's Church, Hensall, North Yorkshire{{National Heritage List for England |num=1295734 |desc=Church of St Paul|fewer-links=yes}}
  • The Red House, Hensall, North Yorkshire{{National Heritage List for England |num=1148401 |desc=The Red House|fewer-links=yes}}
  • Hutton Buscel Village Hall, North Yorkshire{{NHLE |num= 1148825|desc= Village Hall and attached house, Hutton Buscel|access-date= 26 January 2025}}
  • St Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire: restoration, 1854Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 458
  • 1855
  • St Mary's parish church, Marlston, Berkshire, 1855Pevsner, 1966, page 177
  • All Saints' Church, Braishfield, Hampshire, 1855{{cite book |last1=O’Brien |first1=Charles|last2=Bailey |first2=Bruce|last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |last4=Lloyd |first4=David W. |date=2018 |title=The Buildings of England Hampshire: South |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=176|isbn=9780300225037}}
  • 1856
  • St John the Evangelist's parish church, Milton, Oxfordshire, 1856Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page705
  • Balliol College, Oxford: chapel, 1856–57Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 101
  • 1857
  • St Michael's parish church, Gare Hill (Gaer Hill), near Trudoxhill, Somerset, 1857
  • St James' church, school and village buildings, Baldersby St James, North Yorkshire, 1857
  • Charlton-All-Saints, Wiltshire: school, 1857–58Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 162
  • 1858
  • St Mathew's chapel of ease, Easton, Bristol, 1858; demolished 1923{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
  • St Andrew's parish church, Landford, Wiltshire, 1858Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 291
  • Church of St John the Evangelist, better known as the Afghan Church, Mumbai: the reredos, the Afghan War Memorial mosaics, and the tiles, pews and screen, 1858
  • St John the Evangelist parish church, Hammersmith, 1858–59{{cite web |url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HAF050 |title=St John the Evangelist Churchyard |website=London Gardens Online |date=1 November 2011 |access-date=25 January 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045455/http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HAF050 |url-status=dead }}
  • St John the Baptist, Latton, Wiltshire: chancel, 1858–63Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 293
  • Pitt Mission Church and School, Pitt, Hursley, Hampshire, 1858{{NHLE|num=1095781|desc=Pitt Chapel School, Pitt|grade=II|access-date=7 March 2022}}
  • 1859
  • All Saints, Margaret Street, London, 1859{{cite web|title=History & architecture|url=http://www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk/history|work=All Saints Margaret Street website|access-date=26 May 2012}}
  • St Mary the Virgin, Etal, Northumberland 1859{{National Heritage List for England|num=1042179|desc=Church of St. Mary the Virgin|access-date=18 November 2017}}
  • St Nicholas' school, Newbury, Berkshire, 1859Pevsner, 1966, page 182
  • Standlynch Chapel, Trafalgar House, Wiltshire: restoration, 1859–66Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 531
  • 1860
  • St Giles' Church, Tadlow, Bedfordshire, 1860
  • Charlton All Saints, Wiltshire: vicarage, 1860–62Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 82
  • Clergy house, St Alban the Martyr, Holborn{{National Heritage List for England |num=1272352 |desc=St Alban's Clergy House and attached railings with lamp-holder|fewer-links=yes}}
  • 1861
  • St John the Baptist church, Bamford, Hope Valley, Derbyshire: restoration, 1861
  • St Michael's parish church, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): nave and south aisle, 1861Pevsner, 1966, page 166
  • St Mary the Virgin parish church, Castle Eaton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1861–63Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 160
  • 1862
  • Lych gate at St Michael & All Angels' Churchyard extension, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, 1862{{cite web|url=http://www.houghtonlespring.org.uk/hillsidecemetery/lychgate_restoration/index.htm|title=Houghton-le-Spring: Hillside Cemetery Lych Gate Restoration|first=Paul |last=Lanagan|website=houghtonlespring.org.uk}}
  • St Martin's parish church, Bremhill, Wiltshire: restoration, 1862–63Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 140
  • St Michael's parish church, Lyneham, Wiltshire: nave roof and chancel, 1862–65Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 319
  • 1863
  • Church of St Cross, Manchester, Clayton, Manchester, 1863–66The Buildings of England: Lancashire – Manchester and the South East, 2004
  • St Margaret's parish church, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: restoration, 1863Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 693
  • St Mary Magdalene church, Enfield Chase, Middlesex, 1883{{cite web|url=http://www.saintmarymagdalene.org.uk/section/35|publisher=Saint Mary Magdalene|location=Enfield|title=William Butterfield (1814–1900)|first=Joy|last=Heywood|access-date=2016-12-20}}
  • St Michael's parish church, Aldbourne, Wiltshire: restoration, 1863–67
  • 1864
  • St Sebastian, Heathland, Wokingham, Berkshire, 1864Pevsner, 1966, page 154
  • Merton College, Oxford: Grove Building, 1864Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 164
  • St Andrew's parish church, Blunsdon St Andrew, Wiltshire: restoration: 1864–68Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 118
  • Christ Church, Emery Down, Hampshire, 1864{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp630-634 |title=Parishes: Lyndhurst | British History Online |publisher=British History Online |date=1908-06-10 |access-date=2019-11-05}}
  • 1865
  • St George's parish church, Wootton, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1865Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 470
  • St Lawrence's Church, Godmersham, Kent: restoration, 1865
  • St Augustine's, Queen's Gate, London, 1865
  • St Augustine's parish church, Penarth, Glamorgan, 1865–66.
  • SS. Peter & Paul parish church, Heytesbury, Wiltshire: restoration, 1865–67Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 266
  • Holy Saviour church,{{cite web|url=http://www.holysaviourhitchin.org.uk/|title=Home|website=Holy Saviour Church Hitchin}} Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 1865
  • 1866
  • St Anne's church, Dropmore, Littleworth, Buckinghamshire, 1866Pevsner, 1960, page 112
  • All Saints' parish church, Rangemore, Staffordshire, 1866–67
  • St Peter's parish church, Highway, Wiltshire, 1866–67Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 268
  • 1867
  • Holy Trinity Chapel, Known as the 'Tait Chapel', Fulham Palace, London.{{Cite web|title=The Tait Chapel| date=1867|url=https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/tait-chapel-fulham-palace|publisher=National Churches Trust|location=Fulham Palace|access-date=25 August 2024}}
  • St Barnabas' parish church, Horton-cum-Studley, Oxfordshire, 1867Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 656
  • St Mary's parish church, Beech Hill, Berkshire, 1867Pevsner, 1966, page 84
  • Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire: Rectory, 1867Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 685
  • St Mary's parish, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: remodelling of Old Rectory, 1867 (now Tall Chimneys)
  • 1868
  • The Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, Hampshire, 1868
  • St John's Church, Dalton, North Yorkshire
  • St Paul's Church, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire: alterations, 1869
  • 1869
  • St Alban the Martyr church, Holborn, London, 1862;
  • St Mary Brookfield, Dartmouth Park Road, Tufnell Park, London NW5, 1869–75
  • St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia, 1869–1902Marsden, Susan, Paul Stark and Patricia Sumerling, Heritage of the City of Adelaide, Adelaide 1990, pp. 347-349
  • 1870
  • All Saints' parish church, Whiteparish, Wiltshire: restoration, 1870Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 571
  • St Leonard's parish church, Broad Blunsdon, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1870Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 144
  • Church of St Peter, Great Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire: restoration, 1870–71{{cite book|last=Birtchnell|author-link=Percy Birtchnell|first=Percy|title=A Short History of Berkhamsted|year=1960|publisher=The Bookstack|isbn=978-1-871372-00-7|page=30}}
  • The Rectory (now Butterfield House), formerly attached to Church of St Mary the Virgin, Baldock, Hitchin Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, 1870–1873
  • 1871
  • St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire, 1871 additions
  • St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, 1871–2: interior alterations{{cite book|editor=Sheppard, F.H.W. |year=1970|chapter=St. Paul's Church|title=Survey of London: volume 36: Covent Garden |pages=98–128|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46105}}
  • 1872
  • St Mary's Church, Milstead, Kent: restoration, 1872
  • St Mary's parish church, Purton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1872Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 374
  • Saint Mary at Stoke parish church, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1872
  • 1873
  • St Michael and All Angels' parish church & school, Poulton, Gloucestershire, 1873Verey, 1970, pages 370–371
  • St Mary's parish church, Dinton, Wiltshire: restoration, 1873–75Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 182
  • Church of St Peter, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire: restoration, 1873–75
  • 1874
  • All Saints' parish church, Braunston, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1874Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 120
  • All Saints' church, Babbacombe, Devon 1874
  • St Denis' church, East Hatley, Cambridgeshire: restoration, 1874{{Cite web|url=https://www.hatley.info/hatleys-churches/st-denis-east-hatley/|title=St Denis' East Hatley|website=Hatley|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-08}}
  • St George's parish church, West Harnham, Salisbury, Wiltshire: restoration, 1874Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 563
  • St George's Church, Morebath 1874–75
  • St Mary's School, Wantage, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 1874–75Pevsner, 1966, page 254
  • St Margaret's parish church, Knook, Wiltshire: restoration, 1874–76Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 283
  • 1875
  • Rugby School, Warwickshire: Chapel and Quadrangle, 1875
  • Shaw-cum-Donnington School, Shaw, Berkshire, 1875Pevsner, 1966, page 357
  • All Hallows Church, Tottenham, London: restoration, 1875-1877
  • 1876
  • Keble College, Oxford 1876Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 225–229
  • St Andrew's Church, Buckland, Kent: restoration, 1876
  • Holy Cross parish church, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire: restoration: 1876–77Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 95
  • St Catherine's parish church, Netherhampton, Wiltshire, 1876–77Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 354
  • 1877
  • Ascot Priory, Ascot, Berkshire: chapel, 1877Pevsner, 1966, page 68
  • St Andrew's parish church,{{cite web|url=http://www.standrewrugby.org.uk/tour.html|title=St. Andrew's parish church, Rugby}} Rugby, Warwickshire, 1877 with later additions of 1895
  • St James' church, Christleton, Cheshire, rebuilt 1877
  • 1878
  • Exeter School, Exeter, Devon, 1878–1880
  • St Mary Magdalene parish church, Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire: rebuilding, 1878Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 591
  • St John the Baptist parish church, Foxham, Wiltshire: 1878–81Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 251
  • St John the Evangelist church,{{cite web|url=http://www.stjohnsclevedon.org.uk|title=A Community of Faith|website=stjohnsclevedon.org.uk}} Clevedon, Somerset, 1878
  • St Mary's parish church, Donnington, Berkshire: chancel, 1878Pevsner, 1966, page 213
  • St Mary's Convent, Wantage, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire): Noviciate, 1878
  • St Mary's parish church, Dodford, Northamptonshire: restoration, 1878–80Pevsner & Cherry, 1973, page 188
  • 1880
  • St Columba's College Chapel, Whitechurch, County Dublin, Ireland, 1880
  • St Edith of Wilton parish church, Baverstock Lane, Dinton, Wiltshire: restoration 1880–93Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 105
  • St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne (except main tower and spire), Australia, 1880–1891
  • 1881
  • Sarum College, Salisbury, Wiltshire: chapel, 1881Pevsner & Cherry, 1975, page 427
  • 1885
  • St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall Restoration 1885–89.
  • Gordon's School, Surrey, designed the central buildings comprising the Assembly Hall and Reception Building together with the sanatorium and dormitories.
  • 1888
  • St Michael's Church, Woolwich: restoration, 1888
  • 1891
  • St Mark's Church, Dundela, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1878 with later additions of 1891
  • 1892
  • St Augustin's Church, Bournemouth
  • 1895
  • St Andrew's parish church, Rugby, Warwickshire, 1877 with later additions of 1895
  • Awaiting date
  • Ottery St Mary parish church, Devon: south transept refurbishment and marble font
  • St Mawgan Old Rectory, Cornwall
  • St Peter's Church, Bont Goch, Ceredigion{{cite web|url=https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300010712-church-of-st-peter-ceulanamaesmawr|title=Church of St Peter, Ceulanamaesmawr, Ceredigion|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}

Publications

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  • {{cite book |title=Instrumenta Ecclesiastica|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=14307605|publisher=Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society|location=London|via=John Van Voorst|language=la|year=1847|others=with etchings from drawings by William Butterfield|editor=Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society}}

References

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  • {{cite book |last1=Hitchcock |first1=Henry Russell |title=Architecture:Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |series=Pelican History of Art |year=1977 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=978-0-14-056115-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/architecturenine00hitc }}
  • {{cite book|last=Homan|first=Roger|title=The Victorian Churches of Kent|year=1984|publisher=Phillimore & Co. Ltd|location=Chichester|isbn=978-0-85033-466-1}}
  • {{cite book |author=Tyack, Geoffrey |author2=Bradley, Simon |author3=Pevsner, Nikolaus |name-list-style=amp |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England: Berkshire |year=2010 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-12662-4 |page=800|title-link=The Buildings of England }}
  • {{cite book |author=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |author2=Williamson, Elizabeth |title=The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire |year=1994 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-09584-5 |page=832|title-link=The Buildings of England }}
  • {{cite book |author=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |author2=Cherry, Bridget |title=The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire |year=1973 |orig-year=1961 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-09632-3 |page=520|title-link=The Buildings of England }}
  • {{cite book |author=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |author2=Cherry, Bridget |title=The Buildings of England: Wiltshire |year=1975 |orig-year=1963 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-09659-0 |page=664|title-link=The Buildings of England }}
  • {{cite book |author=Sherwood, Jennifer |author2=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-09639-2 |page=948|title-link= The Buildings of England}}
  • {{cite book |author=Verey, David |author2=Brooks, Alan |title=The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds |year=1999 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-09604-0 |page=832|title-link= The Buildings of England}}

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