Collection: Court Barn

Collection-level records:

• Collection history (Collection development policy)

  Since 2007 we have developed the permanent collection by both gifts and purchases. A number of items have been donated following exhibitions, we received a major gift as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme – the largest collection of Essex House Press books in the UK.

  Following a robbery in 2011 in which many items from the Ashbee and Harts displays were stolen we have concentrated our area of collecting in acquiring new pieces for these displays, including purchase and loans.

  Three of those pieces acquired were via the V&A Purchase Grant Scheme and the Art Fund and include a Tower of London goblet by Robert Welch in 2012, a pendant by C.R.Ashbee, 2012 and in 2017 a firescreen made by Thornton and Downer.

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2017

  Licence: CC BY-NC

• Collection overview (Collection development policy)

  The Guild of Handicraft Trust aims to preserve and promote the work of artists, designers and craftspeople working in the north Cotswolds since 1900, and therefore aims to collect work relevant to this theme.

  At present the Trust owns the following collections, each of which relates to a particular individual or organisation:

  • C. R. Ashbee, architect and designer: c450 architectural drawings; metalwork, some silverwork. The largest collection of books from the Essex House Press
  • Charles Blakeman, sculptor and stained-glass artist: c300 photographs of work and stained-glass panels.
  • Campden Pottery, pottery; ceramic pieces
  • Chipping Campden School of Arts and Crafts: annual reports, records, photographs, correspondence.
  • Roland Dyer, photographer: c900 black and white photographs.
  • F. L. Griggs, artist and etcher: small selection of miscellaneous items.
  • Alec Miller, carver and sculptor: casts, photographs, sketchbooks and drawings.
  • Toff Milway, potter: ceramic piece
  • Mary Osborn, weaver: textiles
  • Arthur Penny, metalworker: eleven items of metalwork.
  • Sidney Reeve, silversmith: c500 drawings, and photographs.
  • Stanton Guildhouse: photographs
  • Jesse Taylor, photographer: c450 negatives and contact prints.
  • Thornton and Downer, blacksmiths: two pieces of work
  • W. H. Warmington, silversmith and teacher: photographs, examples of work, and correspondence.
  • Winchcombe Pottery: five pots, photographs
  • Robert Welch, silversmith and industrial designer: candelabra, Tower of London goblet
  • Paul Woodroffe, book designer, illustrator and stained-glass artist: 226 books or pamphlets, and 6 illustrations

  Source: Collection development policy

  Date: 2017

  Licence: CC BY-NC