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John James and George London at Herriard: Architectural drawings in the Jervoise of Herriard Collection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2016
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The Jervoises of Herriard, happily for the historian, rarely discarded any of their papers. The result is a vast and fascinating archive, one quarter of a million items, now the property of the present owner of the Herriard estate, John Loveys Jervoise, but deposited at the Hampshire Record Office in Winchester. Of particular interest to the architectural historian is a box of drawings (Box Pl) catalogued here. It contains over one hundred items, most of which relate to the building of Herriard House, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the outbuildings and offices on the estate, the gardens and the church. The remainder show Jervoise property elsewhere, with a few sheets of miscellaneous drawings. When considered in conjunction with the other documents in the Jervoise collection — correspondence, accounts, bills, memoranda, etc. — these drawings form a very full record of the progress of the project to build the new Herriard House early in the eighteenth century, and of the maintenance of the estate and improvements made to it over a period of more than a century (c. 1690–1825). In the main, they are the work of local builders and craftsmen whose names, when recorded, are not familiar. Two men, however, stand out in connection with work on the early eighteenth-century house and gardens. They are John James and George London, and a clear picture of their involvement emerges.
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1 The Jervoise of Herriard Collection is catalogued under the general reference 44 M 69 at the Hampshire Record Office, Winchester. The architectural drawings are in Box Pi, except nos 75–77 which are stored in a separate packet. Most of the other papers referred to here have not been individually listed and references are to box number only. I should like to thank Mr Jervoise for his willing co-operation on this project and for his permission to examine, photograph and publish the drawings, and also the County Archivist and her staff at Winchester without whose help this work could not have been undertaken. Peter Draper made many helpful suggestions and comments during the preparation of this catalogue, and Anthony Hamber took most of the photographs. The work was partly financed by a grant from the Central Research Fund of the University of London.
2 Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Introduction to the Herriard Collection; Major F. H. T. Jervoise, ‘The Jervoises of Herriard and Britford’, The Ancestor, 11 (1902), 2–13; C. Hussey, ‘Herriard Park, Hampshire’, Country Life, 1 July 1965, pp. 18–22.
3 This could be Thomas Glover of Harnham, Wilts., who built and possibly designed the Collegium Matrarum at Salisbury in 1682 (see Colvin, H., Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1978), p. 348)Google Scholar. Jervoise had a house in the Close at Salisbury and knew the town well.
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14 The wooden model is still preserved at Herriard.
15 The original house plan has been reconstructed from the plans of 1909 and on the basis of all available evidence.
16 Letter to Robert Harley, 24 October 1711, British Library MS Portland Loan 29/217 fol. 556.
17 In the letter to Harley James states that he has an income of about £60 a year ‘wch: I obtained in ye. Works of Greenwich Hospital abt. Twelve Years agoe …’. He held a post as clerk to Hawksmoor (who was Clerk of the Works) at Greenwich from the summer of 1699 onwards (WS, vi (1929), 47). One of his duties was apparently to write the minutes of the Grand Committee, where the handwriting appears to be his from September 1699 (PRO Adm67/i fol. 16).
18 James probably worked at Chelsea as an apprentice carpenter under his master, Matthew Banckes.
19 He was freed from his apprenticeship in March 1697, Guildhall Library Carpenters’ Company Records MS4335/1.
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