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Libraries (1 items)
Brookes Library: Unless otherwise stated all books on this list are in the Brookes Library. Many of the books will be shelved in the LOCAL COLLECTION. Check for this notation when you look up the texts on the Library catalogue. The books listed here should suffice for basic coursework reading and for general coverage of the course, though you will find more than appears on this list.
Two further resources you should consider both to deepen research and if you find there is pressure on books:
1. Oxford Central Library - Westgate Reference Library
2. The Oxfordshire History Centre
St Luke's Church
Temple Road
Cowley
OxfordOX4 2HT
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/public-site/oxfordshire-history-centre
The centre is based in Cowley, about three miles from the centre of Oxford and just off the eastern ring road. There is limited free parking. Buses run every few minutes from Oxford city centre – No. 5 (Oxford Bus Company); Nos 1 and 10 (Stagecoach).
College Libraries: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you approach a College Library
Key Texts (13 items)
Oxford: an architectural guide - Tyack, Geoffrey, 1998 Book | Comprehensive account of the architectural history of Oxford. Buy this if
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possible. It also has a very helpful bibliography which you should consult when researching your essays. It also includes useful chronological walks.
The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire - Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sherwood, Jennifer, 1974 Book | Usually referred to as ‘Pevsner’! This is helpful to have with you when visiting buildings, though you will quickly find it is inadequate. However, the "Introduction to Oxford" is a good survey of the history of the University and college buildings, in relation to national trends. You should also read the "Introduction: Building materials", by Alec Clifton- Taylor, pp. 406-12.
Unbuilt Oxford - Colvin, Howard, 1983 Book | A brilliant and imaginative study of many of Oxfords unbuilt projects.
The History of the University of Oxford series (8 volumes):
The official History of the University of Oxford is an essential resource. While much of these volumes are devoted to institutional and educational history, if you are writing your essay on either University Buildings or Colleges you should find important material here. Each volume also includes a chapter on architectural History which goes to much greater depth than Tyack's more general though very useful guide.
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol.1: The early Oxford schools - Catto, J. I., Aston, T. H., Evans, Ralph, 1984 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol.2: Late medieval Oxford - Catto, J. I., Evans, Ralph, 1992 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol.3: The collegiate university - Aston, T. H., McConica, James, 1986 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol. 4: Seventeenth-century Oxford - Tyacke, Nicholas, 1997 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol.5: The eighteenth century - Aston, T. H., Sutherland, Lucy, Mitchell, L. G., 1986 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol. VI: Nineteenth-century Oxford, part I - Michael Brock, M. C. Curthoys, 1997 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol. 7, Part 2: Nineteenth-century Oxford - T. H. Aston, M. G. Brock, M. C. Curthoys, 2000 Book
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol.8: The twentieth century - Harrison, Brian, c1994
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General Reference (5 items) These books should be consulted first when researching architects. They give full accounts of careers and works, listing drawings and bibliography. They can save you a lot of time.
A biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 - Colvin, Howard, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008 Book
English mediaeval architects: a biographical dictionary down to 1550 : including master masons, carpenters, carvers, building contractors and others responsible for design - Harvey, John Hooper, Oswald, Arthur, 1984 Book
Macmillan encyclopaedia of architects - Placzek, Adolf K., c1982 Book
Directory of British architects 1834-1914: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects - Antonia Brodie, 2001 Book
Oxford dictionary of national biography Website | Essential reference work for architects, patrons, Heads of colleges etc.
Architecture: General (5 items)
British architectural books and writers 1556-1785 - Harris, Eileen, Savage, Nicholas, 1990 Book
British and Irish architectural history: a bibliography and guide to sources of information - Kamen, Ruth H., 1981 Book
The classical language of architecture - Summerson, John, 1980 Book | Essential reading if you failed to read it in your first year
Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 - Summerson, John, 1993 Book | You will also find loan copies of earlier editions at the same classmark. The best and most readable survey for background reading, essential to read parts, for example the introductions to each section, & sections on collegiate building. Good reproductions help you survey English buildings.
English architecture: a concise history - Watkin, David, 1979 Book | Similar to the above, but shorter
Oxford (33 items)
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The medieval universities: their development and organization - Cobban, Alan B., 1975 Book
A history of University College, Oxford - Darwall-Smith, Robin, 2008 Book
A bibliography of printed works relating to the University of Oxford - Cordeaux, E. H., Merry, D. H., 1968 Book | A good starting point for research, although chiefly useful for people who have access to the Bodleian library
The encyclopaedia of Oxford - Hibbert, Edward, Hibbert, Christopher, 1988 Book | reliable and informative entries on a huge variety of topics. Good illlustrations.
The Victoria history of the county of Oxford Vol. 3, The University of Oxford - Salter, H. E., Lobel, Mary D., 1965 Book
The Victoria history of the county of Oxford Vol. 3, The University of Oxford Book | available on British History Online
The Victoria history of the county of Oxford. Vol. 4, The city of Oxford - Crossley, Alan, 1979 Book
The Victoria history of the county of Oxford. Vol. 4, The city of Oxford Book | available on British History Online
Essential reference books (25 items)
The University of Oxford: a history - L. W. B. Brockliss, 2016 Book
An inventory of the historical monuments in the city of Oxford - Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1939 Book | This surveys buildings up to 1714. Useful for plans and detailed descriptions/dating only. Note however that its dry descriptions of buildings are not to be taken as ‘models’ for architectural analysis
Oxford and Cambridge - Brooke, Christopher, Highfield, J. R. L., 1988 Book | Good on history more than architecture but also valuable to consider both University centres
An Oxford hall in medieval times: being the early history of St. Edmund Hall - Emden, A. B., 1968 Book | Much useful info on the organisation of university life before the dominance of the colleges
From clergyman to don: the rise of the academic profession in nineteenth-century Oxford - Engel, A. J., 1983 Book
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Oxford and Cambridge in transition, 1558-1642: an essay on changing relations between the English universities and English society - Curtis, Mark H., 1959 Book
A history of Oxford University - Green, V. H. H., 1974 Book
Oxford life in Oxford archives - Pantin, W. A., 1972 Book | Chatty version of the above book
The Illustrated history of Oxford University - Prest, John, 1993 Book
The Oxford book of Oxford - Morris, Jan, 1978 Book
University architecture: an Oxford walk - Sheehy, Jeanne, Thematic Trails, 1988 Book
New College, Oxford and its buildings - Smith, Alic Halford, 1952 Book
The university in society: Vol.1: Oxford and Cambridge from the 14th to the early 19th century - Stone, Lawrence, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, 1974 Book
Oxford and Cambridge - Tyack, Geoffrey, c1999 Book
Oxford stone - Arkell, W. J., 1947 Book
Oxford stone - Arkell, W. J., 1970 Book | Pioneer book on materials, but see Oakeshott below for more recent information on refacing
Oxford stone restored: the work of the Oxford Historic Buildings Fund, 1957-1974 - Oakeshott, Walter, Thomas, John William, Trustees of the Oxford Historic Buildings Fund, 1975 Book
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton - Willis, Robert, Clark, John Willis, 1988 Book | A reprint of a 19thc work. This volume (vol 3) contains a useful survey of the development of college architecture and planning which includes a great deal on Oxford as well as Cambridge
English heritage in stained glass - Archer, Michael, Brown, Sarah, Cormack, Peter, c1988 Book
Queen Elizabeth's book of Oxford - Durning, M. L., Bodleian Library, 2006 Book
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Jesus College, Oxford, 1571-1971 - Baker, J.N.L., 1971 Book
Magdalen College Oxford: a brief history and guide - Ferdinand, C.Y., 2016 Book
A history of Merton College - Martin, G.H., J. R. L. Highfield, 1997 Book
Oxoniensia - Oxford Architectural & Historical Society Journal | This journal carries articles on the history, architecture and archaeology of Oxford. Available online
Oxoniensia - Oxford Architectural & Historical Society Journal | Brookes Library holds print copies for the last 5 years. Also check availability in Oxfordshire County Council Libraries
Electronic indexes and resources (5 items) You may also find it useful to search:
Bibliography of the history of art Website
Avery index to architectural periodicals Website
Historical abstracts Website
Bibliography of British and Irish history Website
Homepage - University of Oxford Website | University of Oxford Home Page has a link to all the college websites
Visual sources (5 items)
The Oxford almanacks - Petter, Helen Mary, 1974 Book | Very useful visual information in these annual illustrations, printed from 1674 onwards
David Loggan's Engravings of University Buildings, 1675. Audio-visual document | Available on Brookes Virtual along with plans from Pevsner and the Royal Commission of Ancient Buildings Look out for reproductions from other series of illustrations of Oxford buildings, from Agas's map of the 16thc to The New Loggan of the 1930s. Such illustrations are very informative. Available on Moodle
Drawings of Oxford: 1811-27 - Buckler, J. C., Bodleian Library, 1951 Book
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Ackermann's Oxford - Ackermann, Rudolph, Ingrams, James, Colvin, Howard, 1954 Book | Plates from Rudolph Ackerman's A History of the University of Oxford and its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings of 1814 and James Ingram's Memorials of Oxford of 1837
Oxford and its colleges - Wells, J., 1919 Book
Specific periods in English architecture (48 items)
(A) Medieval to Seventeenth Century (9 items)
Tudor and Jacobean: a guide and gazetteer - Airs, Malcolm, 1982 Book
The Canterbury Quadrangle: St. John's College, Oxford - Colvin, Howard, 1988 Book
All Souls: an Oxford college and its buildings : the Chichele lectures - Colvin, Howard, Simmons, J. S. G., 1989 Book | Both of Colvin’s books on Oxford Colleges are essential reading, both for their architectural and historical analysis
Albion's classicism: the visual arts in Britain, 1550-1660 - Gent, Lucy, 1995 Book | essay by Christy Anderson
The Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's Library at Oxford - Gillam, Stanley, Bodleian Library, 1988 Book
Robert Smythson & the Elizabethan country house - Girouard, Mark, Girouard, Mark, 1983 Book
The Building of the Schools Quadrangle - Philip, G Article
On domestic architecture: different dwellings from the meanest hovel to the most ornate palace the sixteenth-century manuscript of Book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University - Serlio, Sebastiano, Rosenfeld, Myra Nan, Avery Architectural Library, 1978 Book
Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospettiva - Serlio, Sebastiano, 1964 Book | There are also editions of Palladio, Vitruvius, Dietterlin, etc. in the Library. Use the catalogue to locate these
(B) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (11 items)
The Architectural outsiders - Brown, Roderick, 1985 Book | Contains a chapter on Keene, the architect at Worcester College in the late 18thc
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A catalogue of architectural drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries in the library of Worcester College, Oxford - Colvin, Howard, Worcester College, 1964 Book
Hawksmoor - Downes, Kerry, Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1969 Book
English Baroque architecture - Downes, Kerry, 1966 Book
Nicholas Hawksmoor: rebuilding ancient wonders - Hart, Vaughan, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2002 Book
Nicholas Hawksmoor and the replanning of Oxford - White, Roger, RIBA Heinz Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1997 Book
James Gibbs - Friedman, Terry, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1984 Book
Wren's Preliminary Design for the Sheldonian Theatre - Anthony Geraghty, 2002 Article
The Sheldonian theatre: architecture and learning in seventeenth-century Oxford - Geraghty, Anthony, 2013 Book
An accidental masterpiece: Magdalen College's new building and the people who built it - Ferdinand, Christine, 2010 Book
Georgian gothic: medievalist architecture, furniture and interiors, 1730-1840 - Lindfield, P., 2016 Book
(C) Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (28 items)
Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College Oxford - Birney, M Article
Buildings for bluestockings: the architecture and social history of women's colleges in late Victorian England - Vickery, Margaret Birney, c1999 Book
Ruskinian Gothic: the architecture of Deane and Woodward 1845-1861 - Blau, Eve, 1982 Book
The Gothic revival - Brooks, Chris, 1999 Book
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Church builders of the nineteenth century: a study of the Gothic Revival in England - Clarke, Basil Fulford Lowther, 1969 Book
T.G. Jackson and the Cult of Eclecticism - Joseph Mordaunt Crook Chapter
Victorian architecture: with a short dictionary of architects - Dixon, Roger, Muthesius, S., 1985 Book | Excellent general survey by themes
A history of the Gothic revival - Eastlake, Charles Lock, Crook, J. Mordaunt, 1978 Book
Oxford Museum: Deane and Woodward - Garnham, Trevor, 1992 Book | Big, well illustrated book on Woodward's Oxford Museum costs
North Oxford - Hinchcliffe, Tanis, 1992 Book | Mostly on development of the St John's estates and housing but a useful chapter on Institutions deals with Keble and Women's colleges, especially Lady Margaret Hall.
The history of the University of Oxford: Vol. VI: Nineteenth-century Oxford, part I - Michael Brock, M. C. Curthoys, 1997 Book | Peter Howell - Chapter on 19th century architecture in Oxford
Mansfield College, Oxford: its origin, history, and significance - Kaye, Elaine, 1996 Book
The High Victorian movement in architecture, 1850-1870 - Muthesius, Stefan, 1972 Book
The architecture of Deane and Woodward - O'Dwyer, Frederick, 1997 Book
Victorian architecture in Britain - Orbach, Julian, 1987 Book | Good introduction, entry for Oxford and dictionary of terms.
'The Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture' and 'The Oxford Architectural Society', 1839-1860 - Prout,D Article
The Centenary history of St Hilda's College, Oxford - Rayner, Margaret E., 1993 Book
Catalogue of the drawings collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: The Scott family - Fisher, Geoffrey, Stamp, Gavin, Heseltine, Joanna, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1981 Book
Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: The Pugin family - Wedgwood, Alexandra, Wilson, Christopher, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1977
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Edwardian architecture: a handbook to building design in Britain, 1890-1914 - Service, Alastair, 1977 Book
William Butterfield - Thompson, Paul Richard, 1971 Book
Victorian Oxford - Ward, W. R., 1965 Book
The life and work of C.R. Cockerell - Watkin, David, 1974 Book
Oxford: studies in the history of a university town since 1800 - Whiting, R. C., 1993 Book | See esp. chapter by Howell
The building of Oxford University Examination Schools, 1876-1882 - Wilcock, Roland, 1983 Book
Rooms for the Torture and Shame of Scholars - Whyte,W Article
Unbuilt Hertford: T. G. Jackson's Contextual Dilemmas - William Whyte, 2002 Article
Interventions in historic centres: the buildings of Magdalen College, Oxford - 1993 Book | This is mostly about the late 20th century additions to the college
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