Blenheim Palace | Woodstock | Oxfordshire | SP 4416 xx Blenheim House xx Blenheim Castle
Subject
Subject Source: Ncarules
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Blenheim building accounts, Oct-Dec 1708
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 230
Detailed accounts of the sums 'Paid by Mr. Henry Joynes' at Blenheim 'Castle' [palace] for building, landscape gardening, etc., including the work of carpenters, joiners and blacksmiths, including (fols. 9v, 29, 45v) the blacksmith Elizabeth Bennett. At fol. 15 are Latin and English copies of the inscription on the Blenheim obelisk [i + 47 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
Oct-Dec 1708
Diaries of David Green
Collection
Diaries of David Green.
Extents: 1.5 Linear metres (28 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1945-1984; c.1891-1902 and 1945-1984
Drawings of places in Oxfordshire, 1806-1912
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. a. 21
(fol. 1) Watercolour of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, from the north entrance, by an unnamed artist, n.d.
(fol. 2) Watercolour of a design for New Quad, Magdalen College, Oxford by an unnamed artist, 1804
(fol. 3) Watercolour of the east view of Brasenose College, Oxford by an unnamed artist, n.d.
(fol. 4) Pencil drawing of the west front of Christ...
Extents: 1 box (5 folders)
Dates:
1806-1912
Drawings of places in Oxfordshire, 1769-1874
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. b. 90
91 drawings and watercolours of Oxfordshire places by various artists including Francis Grose, R. Davidson, W. Fisher, J.C. Buckler, J. England, J. Whessell, [John Malchair?], and George Pyne (with an additional photograph of Pyne at fol. 2a). The images are indexed at fol. ii [ii+95 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1769-1874
Drawings of places in Oxfordshire by Joseph Fisher, c. 1805-c. 1879
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. b.89
206 drawings, mainly by Joseph Fisher, mainly of buildings in Oxford, with a table of contents at fol. ii. Page 80 also contains a photograph of a building on George Street, Oxford, 1903, and page 159a contains a letter from the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, 9 Oct 1877 [ii+228 leaves]:
(fol. 1) Watercolour of a view from Botley Bridge, Oxford by Joseph Fisher, 1815
...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1805-c. 1879
Letters to Charles Richardson, 1799-1831
File
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 92
Letters to the Oxfordshire antiquary Charles Richardson (d. 1827) and to his son Charles, 1799-1831, with (fols. 96-99, 108-111) brief accounts of a tour in the Eastern and Midland counties in 1808 [130 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1799-1831
Notes by the antiquarian Charles Richardson (volume III), 1791-1795, c. 1800-c. 1827
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 173
Third of three volumes of topographical and historical collections on Oxfordshire made by Charles Richardson (d. 1827). Relates to Woodstock and Blenheim Palace, including some original eighteenth-century letters and content inventories for the Palace [i + 348 leaves].
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1791-1795, c. 1800-c. 1827
Notes on sports and pastimes (volume I), c. 1900-c. 1917
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 201
Sports and pastimes pursued in Oxford and neighbourhood down to about 1850, arranged alphabetically, with letters from individuals including (fol. 68) Alfred Hutton, (fols. 70, 265) Henry W. Taunt, (fol. 76) J.W.W. Murray, (fols. 252, 254) W.E. Sherwood, (fols. 340, 480) Herbert Hurst [i+489 leaves]:
Angling
Backsword or cudgel play [singlestick]
Ballooning
...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1900-c. 1917
Notes on sports and pastimes (volume II), c. 1900-c. 1917
File
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 202
Sports and pastimes pursued in Oxford and neighbourhood down to about 1850, arranged alphabetically, with letters from individuals including (fol. 170) William Holden Hutton, (fol. 325, 328) Sidney Lee, (fol. 401) F. Harefield, (fols. 405, 461) H. Salter, (fol. 435) Bernard Henderson [i+494 leaves]:
Coursing
Cricket
Cycling
Dancing
...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c. 1900-c. 1917
Oxfordshire places - notes and ephemera, c. 1837-c. 1934
File
Shelfmark: G.A. Oxon. c. 317/5
Alphabetically arranged loose manuscript notes, ephemera, cuttings and prints on Oxfordshire towns, villages and houses from Barford St. Michael to Burford.
Extents: 1 box (2 folders)
Dates:
c. 1837-c. 1934
Oxfordshire places - notes and ephemera, c. 1753-c. 1920
File
Shelfmark: G.A. Oxon. c. 317/19
Notes, ephemera, cuttings relating to Blenheim Palace and Woodstock.
Extents: 1 box (1 folder)
Dates:
c. 1753-c. 1920