Memorials of old Nottinghamshire by Everard L. Guilford and P. H. Ditchfield
"Memorials of old Nottinghamshire" by Everard L. Guilford and P. H. Ditchfield is a collection of historical and antiquarian essays written in the early 20th century. The volume assembles specialist studies on the county’s past, architecture, landscape, and culture—richly illustrated—and aims to preserve and interpret Nottinghamshire’s heritage from prehistory through the medieval era to its industries and towns. The opening of the volume presents a brief preface explaining a change of editor
and the intent to offer varied, newly researched topics, followed by a contents list that ranges from history and church architecture to poets, rivers, spires, mints, and clockmakers. It then launches into Everard L. Guilford’s “Historical Nottinghamshire,” which argues for using documents alongside tradition and topography, emphasizes the shaping power of the Trent and Sherwood, and briskly surveys the county from prehistoric settlers and the Coritani through a light Roman imprint, the Danelaw and Five Boroughs, Norman rule, medieval commercial growth, the Wars of the Roses, Civil War upheavals, and the rise of hosiery, lace, and coal. Next comes A. Hamilton Thompson’s “The Medieval Church Architecture of Nottinghamshire,” which contends the county is underrated, outlines its generally simple parish plans, the limited direct impact of religious houses, and strong influences from York and Lincoln, and then closely analyzes key sites and styles from Romanesque (Blyth, Southwell) through Early English (Thurgarton, Newark) to Decorated and Perpendicular (Newstead, Gedling, Bingham, Barnby, the Southwell chapter house, Hawton and its allied chancels, Newark’s later work, St. Mary’s Nottingham). Throughout, the opening chapters stress how geography, patronage, and itinerant masons shaped a distinct yet interconnected local architectural and historical identity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Editor | Guilford, Everard L. (Everard Leaver), 1882-1945 |
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| Editor | Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 |
| LoC No. | 12024194 |
| Title | Memorials of old Nottinghamshire |
| Original Publication | London: George Allen & Company, 1912. |
| Series Title | Memorials of the counties of England |
| Contents | Historical Nottinghamshire, by Everard L. Guilford -- Medieval church architecture of Nottinghamshire, by A. Hamilton Thompson -- Newstead Priory and the religious houses of Nottinghamshire, by J. Charles Cox -- Wollation Hall, J. A. Gotch -- The ancient and modern Trent, by Bernard Smith -- The Forest of Sherwood, by J. Charles Cox -- Roods, screens, and lofts in Nottinghamshire, by Aymer Vallance -- The civil war in Nottinghamshire. by Everard L. Guilford -- Nottinghamshire poets, by John Russell -- Nottingham, by W. P. W. Phillimore -- Southwell, by W. E. Hodgson -- Nottinghamshire spires, by Harry Gill -- The low side windows of Nottinghamshire, by Harry Gill -- The Nottingham Mint, by Frank E. Burton -- The clockmakers of Newark-on-Trent, by H. Cook. |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe |
| Subject | Church architecture -- England -- Nottinghamshire |
| Subject | Clock and watch makers -- England |
| Subject | Nottinghamshire (England) |
| Subject | Nottinghamshire (England) -- Antiquities |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77866 |
| Release Date | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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