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James Bettley

April 09, 2024

James Bettley is a British architectural historian, whose publications include new editions of the Pevsner Architectural Guides to Essex (2007), Suffolk (2015) and Hertfordshire (2019). In 2019-20 he served as High Sheriff of Essex.[1]

James Bettley
JP DL FSA
High Sheriff of Essex
In office
2019–2020
Preceded byBryan Burrough
Succeeded byJulie Fosh
Personal details
Alma materTrinity College, Oxford
Occupation
  • Architectural historian


Biography edit

James Bettley was born on 9 April 1958, son of Francis Ray Bettley[2] and his wife Jean. He attended school at Winchester College, where he was a member of the boxing team. He read Medieval and Modern Languages (French and German) at Trinity College, Oxford, including a year at the University of Vienna (BA 1980, MA 1983). In 1999 he received a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He married Lucy Ferrar on 1 February 1986 and they have lived in Great Totham (Essex) since 1991. They have three children.[3][4][1]

From 1980 to 1988 he worked in the drawings collection and library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) before being appointed Librarian, then Head of Education and Research, at the new Design Museum before its opening in 1989. In 1991 he returned to the RIBA as Assistant Director of the British Architectural LIbrary and then from 1997 to 2000 was Head of Collection Development at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. Since 2014 he has been Librarian of Chevening, Kent. He was elected an Associate of the Library Association in 1993 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2002.[4][5]

James Bettley was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1996 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 2013.[6][1] In 2016 he was nominated as High Sheriff of Essex for the year 2019-2020.[7]

He was chairman of the Friends of Essex Churches Trust from 2012 to 2017 and is now chairman of their Grants Committee. He is a member (and past chairman) of the Chelmsford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches and a member of Chelmsford Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee. He has also sat on the Church Buildings Council and chaired their Sculpture & Furnishings Committee. He is chairman of the Rural Community Council of Essex and a trustee of the Essex Heritage Trust. He has contributed sections on architecture and the built environment to successive volumes of the Victoria County History of Essex.[8][9][1] With Graham Watts, Julia Abel Smith, Roy Clare and Juliet Townsend, Bettley formed the Essex Women's Commemoration Project which aimed of identifying distinguished Essex women who had not received the public recognition it was felt they deserved.[10]

Selected publications edit

Books (including contributions) edit

  • Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, Bt, RA, 1835–1924: an exhibition of his Oxford buildings (1983) (catalogue of exhibition in the Examination Schools, Oxford)
  • Lush and luxurious: the life and work of Philip Tilden 1887–1956 (1987) (catalogue of exhibition at the Heinz Gallery, RIBA, London)
  • Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: a cumulative index (ed.) (1989) Aldershot: Gregg Publishing, ISBN 0-576-40004-1
  • The Art of the Book: from medieval manuscript to graphic novel (ed.) (2001) London: V&A Publications, ISBN 1-85177-333-9
  • 'Collection development' (2001) in Information sources in art, art history and design, edited by Simon Ford. Munich: K. G. Saur, ISBN 3-598-24438-X
  • Recollections: the life and travels of a Victorian architect: Sir Thomas Graham Jackson Bt R.A. (introduction and gazetteer) (2003) London: Unicorn Press, ISBN 0-906290-72-4
  • ‘Some architectural aspects of the role of manuals in changes to Anglican liturgical practice in the nineteenth century’ (2004) in The Church and the Book, edited by R. N. Swanson. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, ISBN 0-9529733-8-3
  • Essex (Buildings of England) (2007) New Haven & London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-11614-4
  • Suffolk: East (Buildings of England) (2015) New Haven & London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-19654-2
  • Suffolk: West (Buildings of England) (2015) New Haven & London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-19655-9
  • ‘Laurence King and Faith Craft’ (2015) in All Manner of Workmanship: papers from a symposium on Faith Craft, edited by Robert Gage. Downton: Spire Books, ISBN 978-1-904965-50-3
  • Hertfordshire (Buildings of England) (2019) New Haven & London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22390-3
  • ‘Ernest Geldart (1848–1929) priest and architect’ (2020) in Twenty Priests for Twenty Years, edited by Michael Yelton. Anglo-Catholic History Society, ISBN 978-1-9163276-0-3
  • ‘The Plume Building’ (2020) in Dr Thomas Plume, 1630–1704: his life and legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge, edited by R. A. Doe and C. C. Thornton. Hatfield: Essex Publications, ISBN 978-1-912260-16-4
  • ‘“A building of altogether exceptional interest”: the rediscovery of St Peter’s Chapel in the nineteenth century, and its restoration in the twentieth’ (2023) in St Peter-on-the-Wall: heritage and landscape on the North Sea coast, edited by Johanna Dale. London: UCL Press ISBN 978-1-80008-437-7, free to download from https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211163

Articles edit

  • ‘Marshall Sisson 1897–1978’ (1982), RIBA Transactions 2: 93–100
  • ‘T.G. Jackson and the Examination Schools’ (1983), Oxford Art Journal 6: 57-66
  • ‘Post voluptatem misericordia: the rise and fall of the London lock hospitals’ (1984), London Magazine 10: 167-175
  • ‘Established in pompous style: the heyday of the kennel’ (7 Feb 1985), Country Life 177: 308-11 (with Julia Wolton)
  • ‘Godfrey Samuel 1904–1982’ (1985), RIBA Transactions 7: 82-91
  • ‘In the swing of fashion: the architecture of Philip Tilden’ (1 Jan 1987), Country Life 181: 42-45
  • ‘Hellen’s, Herefordshire’ (29 Sep 1988), Country Life 182: 174-177
  • Suspense building nicely' (9 Nov 1989), Country Life 183: 76-78
  • ‘New light on St Nicholas [Little Braxted]’ (15 Apr 1993), Country Life 187: 78-79
  • 'A checklist of Essex architects 1834-1914' (1993), Essex Archaeology and History 24: 168-184
  • ‘“Foremost in action for the liberties of the church”: the legacy of Canon T.W. Perry at Ardleigh’ (1999), Essex Journal 34: 50-54
  • ‘“The Master of Little Braxted in his prime”: Ernest Geldart and Essex, 1873–1900’ (2000), Essex Archaeology and History 31: 169-194
  • ‘Styling a floral religious order’ (7 Dec 2000), Country Life 194: 108-109
  • ‘“Lapt in lead”: the remains of William Harvey at Hempstead church’ (2001), Essex Journal 36: 43-47
  • ‘“An earnest desire to promote a right taste in ecclesiastical design”: Cox & Sons and the rise and fall of the church furnishing companies’ (2002), Decorative Arts Society Journal 26: 8-25
  • ‘Travels with an architect’s pencil’ (13 Nov 2003), Country Life 197: 84
  • ‘Attitudes to nineteenth-century architecture in Essex’ (2010), Essex Journal 45: 22-28
  • ‘In the footsteps of William of Wykeham: Anglican priest-architects of the nineteenth century’ (2011), Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 55: 9-38
  • ‘“All its glory is from within”: the importance of colour in church interiors, 1843-1903’ (2012), Ecclesiology Today 45: 15-34
  • ‘A month in the country: Revd Ernest Geldart at Kelsale, 1881’ (2012), Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 42: 490-503
  • ‘Portrait of a family home: Boxted Hall, Suffolk’ (25 Apr 2012), Country Life 208: 84-88
  • ‘The Wool Hall, Lavenham: an episode in the history of preservation’ (2013), Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 57: 26-55
  • ‘The contemporary in the conquest: Spains Hall, Essex’ (30 Apr 2014), Country Life 208: 36-41
  • 'All very convenient: Braxted Park, Essex' (5 Aug 2015), Country Life 209: 36-40
  • ‘“The great progress of the place in modern times”: the Chelmsford Planning Survey and the High Chelmer Development, 1945–73’ (2016), Essex Journal 51: 72-84
  • ‘“You have gone too far and an apology is needed”: the saga of enlarging St Martin’s, Chipping Ongar, 1880–84’ (2017), Essex Journal 52: 68-77
  • ‘A country education: Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire’ (28 Feb 2018), Country Life 212: 104-109
  • ‘Reviving histories: The Lordship, Benington Lordship [sic], Hertfordshire’ (13 Feb 2019), Country Life 213: 50-55
  • ‘“This unfortunate parsonage”: the convoluted tale of the construction and subsequent fate of the parsonage house at Tring’ (2020), Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 64: 72-89
  • ‘Monuments from the Foundling Hospital, London, now at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire)’ (2021), Church Monuments 36: 179-201
  • ‘Honouring the past and observing the future: Henshaw Halsey’s chapel and monuments in the church of St John the Baptist, Great Gaddesden (Hertfordshire)’ (2022-2023), Church Monuments 37: 117-130 (with Andrew Skelton)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "About". The High Sheriff of Essex. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Bettley, Francis Ray, (18 Aug. 1909–17 Dec. 1993), Physician for Diseases of the Skin, Middlesex Hospital, London, 1946–74, then Emeritus; Physician, St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London, 1947–74, then Emeritus; formerly Dean, Institute of Dermatology, British Postgraduate Medical Federation; Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u171128. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  3. ^ Badcock, C. F.; Corrie, J. R. La T. (1992). Winchester College: a Register for the Years 1930 to 1975. Winchester: Winchester College. p. 602.
  4. ^ a b Maclure, P. S. W. K.; Stevens, R. P. (2014). Winchester College: a register (7th ed.). Winchester: Winchester College. p. 583.
  5. ^ "Dr James Bettley". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Lieutenancy of Essex | Deputy Lieutenant Commissions | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Privy Council Office | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  8. ^ Friends of Essex Churches Trust. "About Us". Friends of Essex Churches Trust. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  9. ^ "James Bettley – Essex Heritage Trust". Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Essex Women's Commemoration Project". Essex Lieutenancy. 30 December 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.

April 09, 2024
james, bettley, british, architectural, historian, whose, publications, include, editions, pevsner, architectural, guides, essex, 2007, suffolk, 2015, hertfordshire, 2019, 2019, served, high, sheriff, essex, fsahigh, sheriff, essexin, office, 2019, 2020precede. James Bettley is a British architectural historian whose publications include new editions of the Pevsner Architectural Guides to Essex 2007 Suffolk 2015 and Hertfordshire 2019 In 2019 20 he served as High Sheriff of Essex 1 James BettleyJP DL FSAHigh Sheriff of EssexIn office 2019 2020Preceded byBryan BurroughSucceeded byJulie FoshPersonal detailsAlma materTrinity College OxfordOccupationArchitectural historian Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected publications 2 1 Books including contributions 2 2 Articles 3 ReferencesBiography editJames Bettley was born on 9 April 1958 son of Francis Ray Bettley 2 and his wife Jean He attended school at Winchester College where he was a member of the boxing team He read Medieval and Modern Languages French and German at Trinity College Oxford including a year at the University of Vienna BA 1980 MA 1983 In 1999 he received a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art University of London He married Lucy Ferrar on 1 February 1986 and they have lived in Great Totham Essex since 1991 They have three children 3 4 1 From 1980 to 1988 he worked in the drawings collection and library of the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA before being appointed Librarian then Head of Education and Research at the new Design Museum before its opening in 1989 In 1991 he returned to the RIBA as Assistant Director of the British Architectural LIbrary and then from 1997 to 2000 was Head of Collection Development at the National Art Library Victoria and Albert Museum Since 2014 he has been Librarian of Chevening Kent He was elected an Associate of the Library Association in 1993 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2002 4 5 James Bettley was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1996 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 2013 6 1 In 2016 he was nominated as High Sheriff of Essex for the year 2019 2020 7 He was chairman of the Friends of Essex Churches Trust from 2012 to 2017 and is now chairman of their Grants Committee He is a member and past chairman of the Chelmsford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches and a member of Chelmsford Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee He has also sat on the Church Buildings Council and chaired their Sculpture amp Furnishings Committee He is chairman of the Rural Community Council of Essex and a trustee of the Essex Heritage Trust He has contributed sections on architecture and the built environment to successive volumes of the Victoria County History of Essex 8 9 1 With Graham Watts Julia Abel Smith Roy Clare and Juliet Townsend Bettley formed the Essex Women s Commemoration Project which aimed of identifying distinguished Essex women who had not received the public recognition it was felt they deserved 10 Selected publications editBooks including contributions edit Sir Thomas Graham Jackson Bt RA 1835 1924 an exhibition of his Oxford buildings 1983 catalogue of exhibition in the Examination Schools Oxford Lush and luxurious the life and work of Philip Tilden 1887 1956 1987 catalogue of exhibition at the Heinz Gallery RIBA London Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects a cumulative index ed 1989 Aldershot Gregg Publishing ISBN 0 576 40004 1 The Art of the Book from medieval manuscript to graphic novel ed 2001 London V amp A Publications ISBN 1 85177 333 9 Collection development 2001 in Information sources in art art history and design edited by Simon Ford Munich K G Saur ISBN 3 598 24438 X Recollections the life and travels of a Victorian architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson Bt R A introduction and gazetteer 2003 London Unicorn Press ISBN 0 906290 72 4 Some architectural aspects of the role of manuals in changes to Anglican liturgical practice in the nineteenth century 2004 in The Church and the Book edited by R N Swanson Woodbridge Boydell Press ISBN 0 9529733 8 3 Essex Buildings of England 2007 New Haven amp London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 11614 4 Suffolk East Buildings of England 2015 New Haven amp London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 19654 2 Suffolk West Buildings of England 2015 New Haven amp London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 19655 9 Laurence King and Faith Craft 2015 in All Manner of Workmanship papers from a symposium on Faith Craft edited by Robert Gage Downton Spire Books ISBN 978 1 904965 50 3 Hertfordshire Buildings of England 2019 New Haven amp London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 22390 3 Ernest Geldart 1848 1929 priest and architect 2020 in Twenty Priests for Twenty Years edited by Michael Yelton Anglo Catholic History Society ISBN 978 1 9163276 0 3 The Plume Building 2020 in Dr Thomas Plume 1630 1704 his life and legacies in Essex Kent and Cambridge edited by R A Doe and C C Thornton Hatfield Essex Publications ISBN 978 1 912260 16 4 A building of altogether exceptional interest the rediscovery of St Peter s Chapel in the nineteenth century and its restoration in the twentieth 2023 in St Peter on the Wall heritage and landscape on the North Sea coast edited by Johanna Dale London UCL Press ISBN 978 1 80008 437 7 free to download from https www uclpress co uk products 211163Articles edit Marshall Sisson 1897 1978 1982 RIBA Transactions 2 93 100 T G Jackson and the Examination Schools 1983 Oxford Art Journal 6 57 66 Post voluptatem misericordia the rise and fall of the London lock hospitals 1984 London Magazine 10 167 175 Established in pompous style the heyday of the kennel 7 Feb 1985 Country Life 177 308 11 with Julia Wolton Godfrey Samuel 1904 1982 1985 RIBA Transactions 7 82 91 In the swing of fashion the architecture of Philip Tilden 1 Jan 1987 Country Life 181 42 45 Hellen s Herefordshire 29 Sep 1988 Country Life 182 174 177 Suspense building nicely 9 Nov 1989 Country Life 183 76 78 New light on St Nicholas Little Braxted 15 Apr 1993 Country Life 187 78 79 A checklist of Essex architects 1834 1914 1993 Essex Archaeology and History 24 168 184 Foremost in action for the liberties of the church the legacy of Canon T W Perry at Ardleigh 1999 Essex Journal 34 50 54 The Master of Little Braxted in his prime Ernest Geldart and Essex 1873 1900 2000 Essex Archaeology and History 31 169 194 Styling a floral religious order 7 Dec 2000 Country Life 194 108 109 Lapt in lead the remains of William Harvey at Hempstead church 2001 Essex Journal 36 43 47 An earnest desire to promote a right taste in ecclesiastical design Cox amp Sons and the rise and fall of the church furnishing companies 2002 Decorative Arts Society Journal 26 8 25 Travels with an architect s pencil 13 Nov 2003 Country Life 197 84 Attitudes to nineteenth century architecture in Essex 2010 Essex Journal 45 22 28 In the footsteps of William of Wykeham Anglican priest architects of the nineteenth century 2011 Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 55 9 38 All its glory is from within the importance of colour in church interiors 1843 1903 2012 Ecclesiology Today 45 15 34 A month in the country Revd Ernest Geldart at Kelsale 1881 2012 Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 42 490 503 Portrait of a family home Boxted Hall Suffolk 25 Apr 2012 Country Life 208 84 88 The Wool Hall Lavenham an episode in the history of preservation 2013 Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 57 26 55 The contemporary in the conquest Spains Hall Essex 30 Apr 2014 Country Life 208 36 41 All very convenient Braxted Park Essex 5 Aug 2015 Country Life 209 36 40 The great progress of the place in modern times the Chelmsford Planning Survey and the High Chelmer Development 1945 73 2016 Essex Journal 51 72 84 You have gone too far and an apology is needed the saga of enlarging St Martin s Chipping Ongar 1880 84 2017 Essex Journal 52 68 77 A country education Royal Masonic School Rickmansworth Hertfordshire 28 Feb 2018 Country Life 212 104 109 Reviving histories The Lordship Benington Lordship sic Hertfordshire 13 Feb 2019 Country Life 213 50 55 This unfortunate parsonage the convoluted tale of the construction and subsequent fate of the parsonage house at Tring 2020 Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 64 72 89 Monuments from the Foundling Hospital London now at Ashlyns School Berkhamsted Hertfordshire 2021 Church Monuments 36 179 201 Honouring the past and observing the future Henshaw Halsey s chapel and monuments in the church of St John the Baptist Great Gaddesden Hertfordshire 2022 2023 Church Monuments 37 117 130 with Andrew Skelton References edit a b c d About The High Sheriff of Essex 9 December 2018 Retrieved 28 December 2023 Bettley Francis Ray 18 Aug 1909 17 Dec 1993 Physician for Diseases of the Skin Middlesex Hospital London 1946 74 then Emeritus Physician St John s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin London 1947 74 then Emeritus formerly Dean Institute of Dermatology British Postgraduate Medical Federation Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Army Reserve of Officers WHO S WHO amp WHO WAS WHO 2007 doi 10 1093 ww 9780199540884 013 u171128 Retrieved 29 December 2023 Badcock C F Corrie J R La T 1992 Winchester College a Register for the Years 1930 to 1975 Winchester Winchester College p 602 a b Maclure P S W K Stevens R P 2014 Winchester College a register 7th ed Winchester Winchester College p 583 Dr James Bettley Society of Antiquaries of London Retrieved 29 December 2023 Lieutenancy of Essex Deputy Lieutenant Commissions The Gazette www thegazette co uk Retrieved 28 December 2023 Privy Council Office The Gazette www thegazette co uk Retrieved 28 December 2023 Friends of Essex Churches Trust About Us Friends of Essex Churches Trust Retrieved 28 December 2023 James Bettley Essex Heritage Trust Retrieved 28 December 2023 Essex Women s Commemoration Project Essex Lieutenancy 30 December 2023 Retrieved 8 January 2024 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Bettley amp oldid 1209323862, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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