Reference
SL5
Title
Shuttleworth Plans and Maps
Date free text
c.1870-1948
Production date
From: 1870 To: 1948
Scope and Content
Information from Mrs P. Hunting, from correspondence June 1977. "Henry Clutton was ............. the architect employed by Joseph Shuttleworth to design the mansion and stables at Old Warden (1876-8). The Builder 1878, July 6, page 711 and The Bedfordshire Mercury, May 25, 1878, verify this. There are also some references in the Letterbooks (Clutton visiting Old Warden May 24 1877) also among the bundles of receipts at Old Warden are Clutton's payments to Cubitt the builders. Unfortunately, Clutton was not in the habit of signing his architectural plans, but I can assure you that the instructions & headings on the many drawings in your care are usually in his hand. John Usher was a local architect-builder, who was responsible for the less important buildings on the Old Warden Estate. Clutton had dealt with him in the restoration of several of the Duke of Bedford's churches in the county. William Bennison was the Clerk of Works, Milner the landscape gardener and A.J. Pilkington, Clutton's assistant at Old Warden. Clutton was forced to delegate work after 1878, when he became blind."
Level of description
sub-fonds