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Paul Joyce Archive

Paul Joyce (1934–2014) was an architectural draughtsman and historian with a life-long interest in the work of George Edmund Street (1824–1881), a leading architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival. The Centre holds Joyce’s archive, containing material compiled in the course of his research on G.E. Street and other Victorian architects. The archive is fully catalogued and available for research. This spotlight feature highlights original drawings from the archive and a representative sample of Joyce’s research.

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Boyne Hill, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1854-1866

All Saints Church in Boyne Hill, Maidenhead, Berkshire was designed by G.E. Street, along with houses and a school, between 1854-1866. The Paul Joyce Archive contains nine original G.E. Street drawings, an original specification for the Steeple, twelve drawings by Joyce made between 1974-1979, and an array of supportive research.

“G.E. Street’s early masterwork in polychrome brick and marble was designed in 1854-5 as the nucleus of a complete sequence of linked parochial buildings. It forms the N range of an enchantingly picturesque quadrangle, constructed in sections between 1855 and 1865. The combination of materials, orange-red brick with black brick courses and stone banding, yellow Bath stone dressings and applied marbles, reflects Street’s recent studies in Italy and Germany. But the plan is thoroughly English and the style a highly personalised Geometrical Decorated.”¹

Selection of materials from the Paul Joyce Archive (PRJ/4/1)

Related records in the Paul Joyce Archive

Record	Reference
Image file on Boyne Hill	PRJ/1/3
Correspondence file on Boyne Hill	PRJ/2/2
Cuttings folder on Boyne Hill	PRJ/3/2
Church, No. 4 - Circular Window above Archway	PRJ/4/1/1
Church, No. 5 - Buttresses and Lower Part of Tower	PRJ/4/1/2
Church, No. 9 - Detail of Panels in Upper Part of Buttresses and Detail of Windows in Ringing Chamber	PRJ/4/1/3
Church, No. 10 - Door at Foot of Staircase	PRJ/4/1/4
Church, No. 12 - Corbelling over Doorway into Turret under Steps	PRJ/4/1/5
Church, No. 14 - Details of Turret Windows, Finial to Turret, Moulding to Roof of Turret, and Light of Roof of Turret	PRJ/4/1/6
Church, No. 17 - Springing Stone Base of Spire [fragment]	PRJ/4/1/7
Church, No. 18 - Spire [fragment]	PRJ/4/1/8
Church, No. [?] - [Belfry Tower] [fragment]	PRJ/4/1/9
Church, Specification of the works to be done in the erection of a New Steeple at the North West angle of the Church of All Saints Boyne Hill	PRJ/4/1/10
Church and Parochial Buildings - Layout and Roof Plan	PRJ/4/1/11
Church, Parochial Buildings and Glebe land - Layout Survey as Existing with Roof Plans and Tree Survey	PRJ/4/1/12
Theoretical sketch elevations for development of Glebe land with eight dwelling houses and garages	PRJ/4/1/13
Theoretical sketch layout for development of Glebe land with eight dwelling houses and garages	PRJ/4/1/14
School, Estimated Measurements for Reconstruction of Fleche [spire]	PRJ/4/1/15
School, Fleche [spire]	PRJ/4/1/16
'G.E. Street's Design for School Bell Turret and Fleche [spire] now removed'	PRJ/4/1/17
School, Elevation showing Chimney stack	PRJ/4/1/18
School, Elevation with window void [rough sketch]	PRJ/4/1/19
School, Elevation of windows	PRJ/4/1/20
School, Elevation of Fleche [spire]	PRJ/4/1/21
School, Elevation	PRJ/4/1/22
Boyn Hill House, [Elevation Views]	PRJ/4/1/23
Boyn Hill House, [First Floor, Ground Floor and Basement Plans]	PRJ/4/1/24
Boyn Hill House, Out Buildings	PRJ/4/1/25
School, Details of Proposed Elevations	PRJ/4/1/26
Interior and Exterior of All Saints Church, Parsonage and Schools	PRJ/4/1/27
‘Lecture correspondence’	PRJ/5/6
Miniature essays	PRJ/5/8
'Publications correspondence'	PRJ/5/9
Index cards - General research on G.E. Street	PRJ/6/1
Index cards - Works by G.E. Street	PRJ/6/2

Joyce, P. Boyne Hill (Maidenhead), Berkshire, All Saints. In: P. Howell and I. Sutton, ed., The Faber Guide to Victorian Churches, p.16, (London: Faber and Faber, 1989). ↩

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