Bruce A. Bailey

Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA (born March 1937)[1] is an English author, architectural historian, archivist, librarian, freelance lecturer and photographer. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2003.[2] He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust.[3]

Early life

Bruce Bailey was born in Northampton.

Professional work

Bailey works as Archivist/Librarian at Drayton House, a Grade I listed stately home near Lowick, Northamptonshire; he also does archival work for the Spencer family's Althorp Estate.[4]

Photographs by Bailey of buildings in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Herefordshire are held in the Historic England Archive.[5] Photographs by him are also held in the Conway Library archive of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, currently undergoing a digitisation project known as Courtauld Connects.[6] Around 70 of his photographs of monuments and statues can be viewed on the Courtauld's Art & Architecture website.[7]

Publications

Sole author
  • Bailey, Bruce A; Northampton (England); Museums and Art Gallery (1968). Sculpture in England since the seventeenth century, with special reference to Northamptonshire. Northampton: County Borough of Northampton Museums and Art Gallery. OCLC 1181747318.
  • Bailey, Bruce A (1999). Drayton House. Place of publication not identified: Architectural Digest Pub. OCLC 85093735.
  • Tillemans, Peter; Bailey, Bruce A (1996). Northamptonshire in the early eighteenth century: the drawings of Peter Tillemans and others. Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Soc. ISBN 978-0-901275-60-8. OCLC 231710652.

Co-author

Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides

Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present
  • Contributed drawings and cartography to R L Greenall, A History of Northamptonshire, London: Phillimore, 1979.[8]
  • Contributed photographs to Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830, 2nd edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.[9]
  • Biographical article on Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.[10]
  • 'Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction', article with sketch plan and colour illustration, The Furniture History Society newsletter, May 2008.[11]

References
  1. "FreeBMD - Search". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  2. "Mr Bruce Bailey". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. "Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust - Trustees". www.nhct.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  4. "Bailey, Bruce | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  5. "Bruce Bailey Collection (BLY01) Archive Collection | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  6. "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  7. "A&A | Search Results". www.artandarchitecture.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  8. Greenall, R. L (1979). A history of Northamptonshire. London: Phillimore. OCLC 568046999.
  9. Whinney, Margaret (1992). Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. S.L.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-05318-0. OCLC 493114488.
  10. "Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903), rural improver and gardener". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66117. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  11. "Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction" (PDF). Furniture History Society.
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