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
- Hatley, Victor A; Bailey, Bruce A (1988). Church of St Mary the Virgin, Whiston, Northamptonshire. England?: publisher not identified. OCLC 913418588.
Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; BAILEY, Bruce; Cherry, Bridget; Isham, Gyles (1973). Northamptonshire. (2nd ed.) revised by Bridget Cherry. With contributions from Sir Gyles Isham and Bruce Bailey. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-071022-9. OCLC 555057698.
- Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2013). Northamptonshire. New Haven, Conn: Yale Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18507-2. OCLC 1073233582.
- O'Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Lloyd, David W; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2018). Hampshire: south. ISBN 978-0-300-22503-7. OCLC 1056939855.
Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present
- Bailey, Bruce A (2004). "Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough and Drayton House: A story of family intrigue and building activity in the late 17th century". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 57: 21–30. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948827063.
- Bailey, Bruce (2006). "A Northamptonshire Lady of Quality in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: The Journals of Caroline Harriet Stopford of Drayton House". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 59: 43–53. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948826964.
- Bailey, Bruce A (2009). "Northamptonshire — You Can't Get Away from It! A Diversion Into Archives". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 62: 64–68. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948826263.
- Bailey, Bruce (2013). "The Restoration of St Andrew's Church, Arthingworth 1871-3: A Contest Between the Architect and the Incumbent". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 66: 44–47. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948825769.
- Bailey, Bruce (2013). "Revising Pevsner". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 66: 9–12. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948827166.
- Bailey, Bruce (2013). "A Carved Stone Head at Blisworth: Part of Holdenby House?". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 66: 48–49. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948828365.
- Bailey, Bruce (2013). "Two Garden Suburbs in Northampton That Never Were: The Spencer Estate, Dallington and the Delapré Garden Village". Northamptonshire Past & Present. 66: 35–36. ISSN 0140-9131. OCLC 6948825116.
Other articles and contributions
- 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
- "FreeBMD - Search". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- "Mr Bruce Bailey". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust - Trustees". www.nhct.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Bailey, Bruce | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Bruce Bailey Collection (BLY01) Archive Collection | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "A&A | Search Results". www.artandarchitecture.org.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- Greenall, R. L (1979). A history of Northamptonshire. London: Phillimore. ISBN 9780850333497. OCLC 568046999.
- Whinney, Margaret (1992). Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. S.L.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-05318-0. OCLC 493114488.
- "Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903), rural improver and gardener". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66117. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 24 September 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction" (PDF). Furniture History Society.
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