Bruce A. Bailey Explained

Bruce Anthony Bailey ALA FSA (born March 1937)^[1] is an English author, architectural historian, archivist, librarian, freelance lecturer and photographer. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2003.^[2] He lives near the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, works as an archivist and librarian, and is a Trustee of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust.^[3]

Early life

Bruce Bailey was born in Northampton.

Professional work

Bailey works as Archivist/Librarian at Drayton House, a Grade I listed stately home near Lowick, Northamptonshire; he also does archival work for the Spencer family's Althorp Estate.^[4]

Photographs by Bailey of buildings in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Herefordshire are held in the Historic England Archive.^[5] Photographs by him are also held in the Conway Library archive of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, currently undergoing a digitisation project known as Courtauld Connects.^[6] Around 70 of his photographs of monuments and statues can be viewed on the Courtauld's Art & Architecture website.^[7]

Publications

Sole author

• Book: Bailey. Bruce A. Sculpture in England since the seventeenth century, with special reference to Northamptonshire.. Northampton (England). Museums and Art Gallery. 1968. County Borough of Northampton Museums and Art Gallery. Northampton. English. 1181747318.
• Book: Bailey, Bruce A. Drayton House. 1999. Architectural Digest Pub.. Place of publication not identified. English. 85093735.
• Book: Tillemans. Peter. Northamptonshire in the early eighteenth century: the drawings of Peter Tillemans and others. Bailey. Bruce A. 1996. Northamptonshire Record Soc.. 978-0-901275-60-8. Northampton. English. 231710652.

Co-author

• Book: Hatley. Victor A. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Whiston, Northamptonshire.. Bailey. Bruce A. 1988. publisher not identified. England?. English. 913418588.

Contributions to Pevsner Architectural Guides

• Book: Pevsner. Nikolaus. Northamptonshire. (2nd ed.) revised by Bridget Cherry. With contributions from Sir Gyles Isham and Bruce Bailey.. BAILEY. Bruce. Cherry. Bridget. Isham. Gyles. 1973. Penguin. 978-0-14-071022-9. Harmondsworth. English. 555057698.
• Book: Bailey. Bruce. Northamptonshire. Pevsner. Nikolaus. 2013. Yale Univ. Press. 978-0-300-18507-2. New Haven, Conn. English. 1073233582.
• Book: O'Brien. Charles. Hampshire: south. Bailey. Bruce. Lloyd. David W. Pevsner. Nikolaus. 2018. 978-0-300-22503-7. English. 1056939855.

Selected articles in Northamptonshire Past & Present

• Bailey. Bruce A. 2004. Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough and Drayton House: A story of family intrigue and building activity in the late 17th century. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 57. 21–30. 0140-9131. 6948827063.
• Bailey. Bruce. 2006. A Northamptonshire Lady of Quality in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: The Journals of Caroline Harriet Stopford of Drayton House. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 59. 43–53. 0140-9131. 6948826964.
• Bailey. Bruce A. 2009. Northamptonshire — You Can't Get Away from It! A Diversion Into Archives. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 62. 64–68. 0140-9131. 6948826263.
• Bailey. Bruce. 2013. The Restoration of St Andrew's Church, Arthingworth 1871-3: A Contest Between the Architect and the Incumbent. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 66. 44–47. 0140-9131. 6948825769.
• Bailey. Bruce. 2013. Revising Pevsner. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 66. 9–12. 0140-9131. 6948827166.
• Bailey. Bruce. 2013. A Carved Stone Head at Blisworth: Part of Holdenby House?. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 66. 48–49. 0140-9131. 6948828365.
• Bailey. Bruce. 2013. Two Garden Suburbs in Northampton That Never Were: The Spencer Estate, Dallington and the Delapré Garden Village. Northamptonshire Past & Present. English. 66. 35–36. 0140-9131. 6948825116.

Other articles and contributions

• Contributed drawings and cartography to R L Greenall, A History of Northamptonshire, London: Phillimore, 1979.^[8]
• Contributed photographs to Margaret Whinney, Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830, 2nd edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.^[9]
• Biographical article on Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.^[10]
• 'Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction', article with sketch plan and colour illustration, The Furniture History Society newsletter, May 2008.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: FreeBMD - Search. 2020-09-25. www.freebmd.org.uk.
2. Web site: Mr Bruce Bailey. 2020-09-24. Society of Antiquaries of London. en-GB.
3. Web site: Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust - Trustees. 2020-09-24. www.nhct.org.uk.
4. Web site: Bailey, Bruce Yale University Press. 2020-09-24. yalebooks.yale.edu.
5. Web site: Bruce Bailey Collection (BLY01) Archive Collection Historic England. 2020-09-24. historicengland.org.uk. en.
6. Web site: 2020-06-30. Who made the Conway Library?. 2020-09-24. Digital Media. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/. dead.
7. Web site: A&A Search Results. 2020-09-24. www.artandarchitecture.org.uk.
8. Book: Greenall, R. L. A history of Northamptonshire. 1979. Phillimore. London. 9780850333497. English. 568046999.
9. Book: Whinney, Margaret. Sculpture in Britain, 1530-1830. 1992. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-05318-0. S.L.. English. 493114488.
10. Isham, Sir Charles Edmund, tenth baronet (1819–1903), rural improver and gardener. 2020-09-24. 2004. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/66117. 978-0-19-861412-8.
11. Web site: Drayton House and its Marble Buffet: A Reconstruction. Furniture History Society.