England's Past for Everyone: Historic Environment Research
Matthew Bristow, 2012. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000416. How to cite using this DOI
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Burford, Oxfordshire
The Burford project looked at the town as visitors experience it. It explored Burford's origins as a planned medieval town, its social and economic life, and the people who have lived and worked there over the centuries. Volunteers transcribed wills, probates and other historical documents to find out more about the people who lived in the town, and took part in building investigation, carried out in partnership with the Oxfordshire Building Record.
The project and resulting publication, Burford: Buildings and People in a Cotswold Town charted the creation of the town we see today: its buildings, its townscape, and the people who over the centuries have lived in and helped shape it. The volume also included a gazetteer of all the buildings in the main streets of the town, surveyed by the Burford Volunteer Group and the Oxfordshire Buildings Record. This gazetteer is the first comprehensive record of its kind and of value to both locals and visitors alike. Grand houses and ecclesiastical buildings were also included, with renowned architectural historian Nicholas Cooper contributing surveys of Burford Priory, the Great House and the parish church of St John the Baptist.
Report files:
| THE GREAT HOUSE Building Analysis, by Nicholas Cooper | 98 Kb | |
| THE GREAT HOUSE Ownership and Occupiers, by Nicholas Cooper | 118 Kb | |
| THE GREAT HOUSE The Panel Paintings, by Nicholas Cooper | 119 Kb | |
| BURFORD PARISH CHURCH Building Analysis by Nicholas Cooper | 164 Kb | |
| BURFORD PARISH CHURCH Tombs and Monuments, by Nicholas Cooper | 118 Kb | |
| BURFORD PRIORY Description and Building Analysis, by Nicholas Cooper | 136 Kb | |
| BURFORD PRIORY The Lenthall Chapel, by Nicholas Cooper | 134 Kb | |
| BURFORD PRIORY Owners, Occupiers and General History, by Nicholas Cooper | 127 Kb | |
| BURFORD PRIORY: BUILDING PHASES | 1 Mb |
Publications
BURFORD: BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE IN A COTSWOLD TOWN by Antonia Catchpole, David Clark, Robert Peberdy. Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-86077-488-1
