IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/139
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: KELSEY, Richard (fl 1820-1837)
Date(s): [1820]-1837
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s): Kelsey | Richard | fl 1820-1837 | architect
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Richard Kelsey was surveyor to the City of London Commissioners of Sewers, 1832-46.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Architectural sketch and notebooks of Richard Kelsey, architect, containing annotated designs for, and sketches of, houses, theatres, prisons, bridges and sewers; plans and elevations of existing buildings by other architects, ancient and modern; drawings of medieval funeral effigies; extracts from writers on architecture and history; accounts for work done for customers; estimates; accounts for materials and workmen employed; and miscellaneous unrelated memoranda.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Four volumes.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These volumes were donated to Guildhall Library in 1882. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.