Reference code: GB-0033-AAS
Title: Records of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland
Dates of creation: 1897-2019
Extent: 2 boxes.
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Records created by the society.
Language:
English
The Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland was founded in 1861, with the twin objectives of helping both to study and to preserve whatever is of architectural, archaeological and antiquarian interest within the
area. It is still active.
It has published its
Transactions since 1862 (volumes 1-11 1862-1965 and New Series volumes 1-6 1968-1982). This became
Durham Archaeological Journal in 1984.
Records of the Society comprising minutes, accounts, some Society cards, correspondence and notices of meetings and excursions.
Deposited by the Society. Accounts and subscription books were deposited in November 1965 by Dr C.W. Gibby.
MS.7/2 (part) and 8/1 were transferred from D.G. Ramage's files amongst the Durham University Library records April 2007.
MS.8/2 is accumulated from posters displayed in Palace Green Library.
MS.7/1-2 and 9/1-7 were transferred from the files of the former president, Dr A.I. Doyle, at Palace Green Library, 21 September 2007, Acc No Misc.2007/8:10.
MS.1/3 was deposited by the secretary 5 March 2008, Acc No Misc.2007/8:41.
MS.9/8 was transferred from the files of the former president, Dr A.I. Doyle, at Palace Green Library, 5 March 2008, Acc No Misc.2007/8:44.
In nine groups of material.
Records of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and NorthumberlandAAS MS.1
Minute books, with news cuttings and printed notices pasted in.
AAS MS.1/1 1897-1912
AAS MS.1/2 1913-1933
AAS MS.1/3 1933-1994
Minutes of bi-monthly committee and annual society meetings, including attendance, apologies, proposed lectures and excursions, with agendas.
Also includes printed circulars, notices of meetings, invites, lectures, excursions, membership application forms, statements of accounts, lists of members, local newspaper cuttings concerning society activities, reports from visits and
excursions, programmes and BW photographs of a presentation to C.W. Gibby by the then president A.I. Doyle [c.1970] with also Mrs Gibby, Linda Drury and Ela Wright amongst those present, and also of Gibby holding forth to [students outside in the
College].
AAS MS.2
Subscription books, including members' names and addresses.
AAS MS.2/1 1927-1951
AAS MS.2/2 1952-1964
AAS MS.2/3 1965-1974
AAS MS.2/4 1975-1983
AAS MS.2/5 1983-1989
AAS MS.3
Account books
AAS MS.3/1 1937-1948
AAS MS.3/2 1948-1955
AAS MS.3/3 1955-1962
AAS MS.3/4 1964-1972
AAS MS.3/5 1973-1982
AAS MS.4
Membership and programme cards.
AAS MS.4a 1971/72-1975/76
Membership cards.
AAS MS.4b 1973-1975
Excursion programmes
AAS MS.4c 1976/77
Lectures programme
AAS MS.4d [c.2008]
Promotional leaflet, 3-fold, with 5 colour images
AAS MS.5
Rules of the Society: 2 versions, both undated
AAS MS.6 1966-1983
Balance sheets.
AAS MS.7
Excursions.
AAS MS.7/1 [1965]
Lists of places visited on excursions 1913-1965.
AAS MS.7/2 1951-1980
Programmes, notes and offprints of articles in preparation for excursions.
AAS MS.8
Notices of meetings.
AAS MS.8/1 1950-1952
AAS MS.8/2 2004-2009
AAS MS.8/3 2011-2019
AAS MS.9
Correspondence files
AAS MS.9/1 1963
Statement about University College's proposal to erect a 4/5 storey building in the Castle's Fellows Garden adjacent to the barbican with 5 BW photographs with overlays of the projected building, and an extract from the 1879
Transactions about the Society's opposition to proposed alterations to the Norman Gallery in the castle.
AAS MS.9/2 September 1965
Original plan, 6 BW photographs, and a sheet of prints of them, with a covering letter from L. Still, as printed in an article by him on
“Excavations at Low Grange Farm” in Transactions vol. XI parts V & VI (1965), p.391-403.
AAS MS.9/3 June-October 1966
Correspondence about the dilapidation of the Hardwick Hall banqueting hall and garden buildings.
AAS MS.9/4 June 1980 - August 1982
Correspondence with Morpeth Antiquarian Society and Northumberland Magistrates' Court Committee about the maintenance of Morpeth Court House.
AAS MS.9/5 September 1982
Correspondence with Durham County Council about the restoration of Seaton Holme (Old Rectory), Easington.
AAS MS.9/6 December 1983 - December 1984
Correspondence, submitted evidence and copy judgement in the consistory court case over reordering the chancel at Brancepeth church.
AAS MS.9/7 14 May 1984
Copy letter from Sheridan Gilley to Douglas Pocock objecting to the proposed application for a faculty by Durham St Oswald's PCC for installing an organ at the west end of the nave and thereby obscuring the William Morris west window, to be
discussed by the Society.
AAS MS.9/8 1960-1981
Correspondence and agreements re the exchange of publications with Durham University Library, including a price list for the Society's publications up to 1981.
PublicationsReference: AAS MS.10AAS MS.10/1 2004 - 2017
Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland Newsletter, issues 1, 3-27
26 printed colour illustrated paper magazines
Full set on open access in PGL BRL at Per Local DUR
