Buildings and architecture of Staffordshire

This Curation highlights buildings in Staffordshire featured in the expanded and updated 2024 guide to the architecture of the county by Dr Chris Wakeling (originally compiled by Nikolaus Pevsner in 1974).

The new guide is the subject of the Reginald Haggar Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Simon Bradley, joint editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, at Keele University on Saturday 2 November 2024.
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Dr Chris Wakeling was a founder member of the Reginald Haggar Memorial Lecture Committee until his death in 2023. He had largely completed his work on the Staffordshire volume but did not live to see final publication of the guide.

Artists featured in this Curation: Raymond Myerscough-Walker (1908–1984), Henry Gastineau (1791–1876), unknown artist, M. D. Oversby, British (English) School, Marcus May (b.1958), Nicholas Thomas Dall (1706–1776), Charles William Brown (1882–1961), G. B. Nichols of Wolverhampton, John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911), and 18 more See all

25 artworks

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Lichfield Cathedral

Raymond Myerscough-Walker (1908–1984)

Oil, pen & ink on paper

H 55.2 x W 42.8 cm

Government Art Collection

Image credit: Staffordshire Archives & Heritage

Croxden Abbey 1850

Henry Gastineau (1791–1876)

Watercolour on paper

H 63.5 x W 81.5 cm

Staffordshire Museum & Art Collection

Image credit: Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire

unknown artist

Oil on canvas

H 59.5 x W 89.5 cm

Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

Brough Park and the Nicholson Institute, Leek 1960

M. D. Oversby

Oil on canvas

H 100 x W 121 cm

Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

Image credit: Brampton Museum

Keele Church, Staffordshire 19th C

British (English) School

Oil on board

H 32.5 x W 41 cm

Brampton Museum

A Bird’s-Eye View of Weston Park 1998

Marcus May (b.1958)

Oil on canvas

H 119.4 x W 119.4 cm

Weston Park

Image credit: National Trust Images

The West Front of Shugborough 1768

Nicholas Thomas Dall (1706–1776)

Oil on canvas

H 113 x W 169 cm

National Trust, Shugborough

Alton Towers

Charles William Brown (1882–1961)

Oil on board

H 78.5 x W 83 cm

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Image credit: Michael Kentish / Art UK

Facade, Reliefs, and Mosaics 1869

G. B. Nichols of Wolverhampton (active 1869) and John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911) and Robert Edgar (1837/1838–1873) and M. H. Blanchard and Rowland James Morris (1841–1898)