Two Sussex Examples of the Contribution Documentary Sources Can Make to the Study of Buildings

Specialists and students of vernacular architecture alike must have welcomed a paper by David and Barbara Martin using the evidence from their comprehensive research in the rape of Hastings to establish the reasons for alterations and additions to medieval and transitional houses. Examples of this phenomenon have increasingly been recognised as more assiduous fieldwork is carried out, compelling a re-evaluation of historical generalisations.Over the last decade, it has been very encouraging to see the moves towards greater cooperation and sharing of knowledge between different fields of historical investigation – historians, archaeologists, geographers – and the acceptance of the study of vernacular architecture. Because the latter has been a comparative newcomer, many of those involved were drawn from a varied range of disciplines, and this has probably been something of a catalyst in the movement towards greater integration.Given below are two particular examples of the way that an interpretation of historical structure and local documentary research can be brought together to illuminate and enlarge upon an understanding of each other

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• Lincolnshire’s middle trent valley

  David Stocker et al•Vernacular Architecture•2015

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