Author: PARKER John Henry (publ)
Title: Some Remarks upon the Church of Great Haseley Oxfordshire. Read at a meeting of the Oxford Society for promoting the study of Gothic Architecture, November 19, 1839. Together with Extracts from Delafield's Ms. in the Bodleian Library, entitled 'Notitia Hasleiana'
Description: Oxford, 1848 2nd ed. Frontis, xi, 159pp plus 18 single-sided engraved plates. Embossed cloth, 22x15. Owner's bookplates, some spotting to edges, small split top of spine, good thus. The church and its furnishings are described in detail. It is put forward as a good example of authentic gothic. In the years before 1840 it had become neglected and delapidated. The architect J M Derrick, attempted to carry out restoration work but this was hampered by the state of the roof.

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