The archaeology of ancient buildings whether ruined or not - their walls, bricks, tiles, timber frames, doors, windows, floors, fireplaces, staircases and plaster - with guidance on conducting a building survey.  Large format paperback.   48 pages.  In very good clean condition.

Commemorates the work of this Peterborough bellfounder and his C18th bells found in churches in Northamptonshire and East Anglia.  This is a 2005 reprint of the original, re-issued to accompany a series of lectures by Northamptonshire Record Society on Henry Penn.  Paperback.

A massive survey of historic lead artefacts - fonts; pipes; cisterns; spires; domes; lanterns; statues; urns; coffins; charms; tobacco boxes; and pilgrim badges.  Illustrated throughout with 440 b&w photographs.  Includes a bibliography.

Five of the final six annual reports of the National Buildings Record before it was absorbed into the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (later English Heritage).  These reports provide a depressing roll call of historic buildings, both large and small, left derelict or demolished.

A special issue of Coup de Fouet Magazine which is the mouthpiece of a not-for-profit organisation that promotes the collective appreciation and conservation of art nouveau heritage.

To mark the exhibition 'Change and Decay: The Future of Our Churches', and to draw attention to the neglected topic of preservation of large historic sculptural monuments in English and Welsh churches and cathedrals, the V&A reprinted the 1869 'Report of the Sepulchral Monuments Committee' or

A detailed guide for researchers into the history of houses using documentary and architectural evidence with information on the use of tithe maps, rate books, deeds, wills, leases, surveys, court rolls and inventories.  Paperback.  62 pages.

An eight-page A4 booklet documenting the C19th popularity of a variety of tiles in Victorian houses and pubs, on floors, walls, fireplaces and washstands - encaustic, glazed, transfer-printed and tube-lined - with advice on their restoration and maintenance.

Text of a lecture given to explore the notable Anglo-Saxon sculptures in one of England's most remarkable survivals, namely the beast head label stop ends, the carved virgin, and the spiral decorated pre-Norman font with its ornamental base.  Ilustrated.  Paperback.  32 pages.

Album of photographs of the extraordinarily ornate misericords and carved bench ends in Amien cathedral which exemplify the height of such art as reached in the early C16th.