C R J Currie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C R J Currie |
| GIVEN NAMES | C R J |
| FAMILY NAME | Currie |
| SIGNATURE | CURRIE C R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tenants’ Copies of Court Rolls in England and Wales Before 1400
While much has been written about the early development of copyhold, and the presumed origins in the fourteenth century of the practice of making copies of court roll entries for tenants, original copies have not been systematically sought or investigated. This article uses research in 38 repositories to analyse 176 copies of seigneurial court rolls, of which full transcripts are published online elsewhere. It indicates their diverse physical and…
Why Historians Believe That Customary Tenants Normally Paid for Their Own Buildings
This paper rebuts Pamela Slocombe’s suggestion that manorial lords were principally responsible for building the houses of their customary (copyhold) tenants in the later Middle Ages. After briefly reviewing the evidence for landlords’ involvement in freeholds, leaseholds and urban buildings, taking note of previous studies of documentation of peasant building, and omitting published manorial accounts that say nothing about buildings, it examines…
Odda's chapel, Ealdred's inscriptions? The Deerhurst inscriptions in some continental contexts
This article examines the inscriptions associated with Odda's chapel, Deerhurst, in the light of a quantitative analysis of terminology in early medieval lapidary inscriptions in Rome, western Germany and Normandy, and in the Liber Pontificalis. It suggests that they were the first fruits of a campaign by Bishop Ealdred to revive the practice of installing correctly formulated dedicatory inscriptions in churches in England, but that the campaign …
The Unfulfilled Potential of the Documentary Sources
This paper discusses ways of integrating evidence from architectural remains and documents in the study of buildings. It begins with a quantitative bibliographical examination of the actual use of multidisciplinary, document-based approaches in studies of vernacular architecture since the later 1940s, showing the limits to progress. It goes on to discuss the types of sources that have been advocated and used in such studies, and the restrictions …
Timber structure
Short Reviews
Gazetteer of Archaic Roofs in Herefordshire and Worcestershire Churches
Common-rafter roofs are normally regarded as typical of eastern or 'lowland' England. In Hereford and Worcester so-called 'highland' double-framed purlin roofs, with principal rafters or crucks, are almost universal in vernacular buildings. This paper describes twelve common-rafter roofs in parish churches, and one in a house, which have features characteristic of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. They are thus earlier than the roofs of the t…
Time and Chance
This reply concentrates on Mr Mercer's case, which seeks to adduce evidence against some of the specific arguments in 'Time and Chance'. Mr Peter Smith's case, which is more a restatement of traditional views, is discussed in the second part of the article
Upstairs or Downstairs
Structural and documentary evidence is examined for the position of the principal chamber in houses of the richer peasantry between the Norman Conquest and the seventeenth century. It appears that in several parts of southern England the chamber was successively on the ground floor, the first floor, the ground floor again, and finally the upper floor again, although those phases were not simultaneous in different areas. The evidence for the secon…
Time and Chance
The paper discusses models of the effects of piecemeal rebuilding of groups of old houses as a result of fire and other factors. The models are used to test the validity of historical inferences commonly made from regional variations in survival. It is shown that fire may be a more significant cause of destruction than was previously thought, that it was probably more so in nucleated than in scattered settlements, and that other causes of destruc…
Open Plank End Trusses in the Oxford Region
The note draws attention to trusses with plank-like timbers in buildings using mainly square-sectioned timbers. It lists five examples, and several comparable buildings without plank trusses, in order to show where and when plank trusses were and were not used
Early Vetches in Medieval England
T he leguminous annals of English agrarian history have been thrown into confusion by a recent claim that the earliest known reference to the growing of vetches as a field crop in England comes from Kent in I268, allegedly some ten years earlier than on the other side of the Channel.' That claim is now trumped by evidence for vetches at Ospringe in Kent in I238, so that 'it would appear that vetches may have been grown in Kent for many years befo…
Timber Supply and Timber Building in a Sussex Parish
This paper questions the commonly held view that the quality and number of timber framed houses in a district reflects the local availability of standing timber. A case history is provided from records and standing buildings of the parish of Warminghurst (Sussex). The settlement history and forms of tenure are summarized. It is then shown from written evidence that, while there was much standing timber in the Middle Ages and later, the policy of …
A Romanesque Roof at Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Timbers removed from the nave of the chapel in 1965, together with earlier photographs and traces in the surviving masonry, provide evidence of a rafter roof with a tie-beam, and probably a king-post and raking struts, at each couple. Later alterations to it are discussed in the light of what is known or can be deduced about the late- and post-medieval development of the farmhouse to which the chapel is attached. The alterations resulted in a roo…
The Bishop of Winchester's Medieval Manor House at Harwell, Berkshire, and its Relevance in the Evolution of Timber-Framed Aisled Halls
This paper is based on the lecture given to the Institute at the Society of Antiquaries of London on 18 October 1972. It concerns the discovery in 1967 in a house in the village of Harwell of the aisled hall, formerly in the curia of the medieval manor of the Bishop of Winchester, for which the Pipe Rolls for most of the years from 1208 to 1450 exist. The earliest phase of which parts survive consisted of a framed building with passing-braces bui…
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access C. R. J. CURRIE C. R. J. CURRIE Victoria History of Staffordsbire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXV, October 1977, Pages 880–881, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXV.880 Published: 01 October 1977
The Bishop of Winchester's Medieval Manor House at Harwell, Berkshire, and its Relevance in the Evolution of Timber-Framed Aisled Halls
This paper is based on the lecture given to the Institute at the Society of Antiquaries of London on 18 October 1972. It concerns the discovery in 1967 in a house in the village of Harwell of the aisled hall, formerly in the curia of the medieval manor of the Bishop of Winchester, for which the Pipe Rolls for most of the years from 1208 to 1450 exist. The earliest phase of which parts survive consisted of a framed building with passing-braces bui…
Time and Chance
The paper discusses models of the effects of piecemeal rebuilding of groups of old houses as a result of fire and other factors. The models are used to test the validity of historical inferences commonly made from regional variations in survival. It is shown that fire may be a more significant cause of destruction than was previously thought, that it was probably more so in nucleated than in scattered settlements, and that other causes of destruc…
A Romanesque Roof at Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Timbers removed from the nave of the chapel in 1965, together with earlier photographs and traces in the surviving masonry, provide evidence of a rafter roof with a tie-beam, and probably a king-post and raking struts, at each couple. Later alterations to it are discussed in the light of what is known or can be deduced about the late- and post-medieval development of the farmhouse to which the chapel is attached. The alterations resulted in a roo…
Why Historians Believe That Customary Tenants Normally Paid for Their Own Buildings
This paper rebuts Pamela Slocombe’s suggestion that manorial lords were principally responsible for building the houses of their customary (copyhold) tenants in the later Middle Ages. After briefly reviewing the evidence for landlords’ involvement in freeholds, leaseholds and urban buildings, taking note of previous studies of documentation of peasant building, and omitting published manorial accounts that say nothing about buildings, it examines…
Timber Supply and Timber Building in a Sussex Parish
This paper questions the commonly held view that the quality and number of timber framed houses in a district reflects the local availability of standing timber. A case history is provided from records and standing buildings of the parish of Warminghurst (Sussex). The settlement history and forms of tenure are summarized. It is then shown from written evidence that, while there was much standing timber in the Middle Ages and later, the policy of …
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access C. R. J. CURRIE C. R. J. CURRIE Victoria History of Staffordsbire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXV, October 1977, Pages 880–881, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXV.880 Published: 01 October 1977
The Bishop of Winchester's Medieval Manor House at Harwell, Berkshire, and its Relevance in the Evolution of Timber-Framed Aisled Halls
This paper is based on the lecture given to the Institute at the Society of Antiquaries of London on 18 October 1972. It concerns the discovery in 1967 in a house in the village of Harwell of the aisled hall, formerly in the curia of the medieval manor of the Bishop of Winchester, for which the Pipe Rolls for most of the years from 1208 to 1450 exist. The earliest phase of which parts survive consisted of a framed building with passing-braces bui…
Timber Supply and Timber Building in a Sussex Parish
This paper questions the commonly held view that the quality and number of timber framed houses in a district reflects the local availability of standing timber. A case history is provided from records and standing buildings of the parish of Warminghurst (Sussex). The settlement history and forms of tenure are summarized. It is then shown from written evidence that, while there was much standing timber in the Middle Ages and later, the policy of …
A Romanesque Roof at Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
Timbers removed from the nave of the chapel in 1965, together with earlier photographs and traces in the surviving masonry, provide evidence of a rafter roof with a tie-beam, and probably a king-post and raking struts, at each couple. Later alterations to it are discussed in the light of what is known or can be deduced about the late- and post-medieval development of the farmhouse to which the chapel is attached. The alterations resulted in a roo…
Time and Chance
The paper discusses models of the effects of piecemeal rebuilding of groups of old houses as a result of fire and other factors. The models are used to test the validity of historical inferences commonly made from regional variations in survival. It is shown that fire may be a more significant cause of destruction than was previously thought, that it was probably more so in nucleated than in scattered settlements, and that other causes of destruc…
Open Plank End Trusses in the Oxford Region
The note draws attention to trusses with plank-like timbers in buildings using mainly square-sectioned timbers. It lists five examples, and several comparable buildings without plank trusses, in order to show where and when plank trusses were and were not used
Early Vetches in Medieval England
T he leguminous annals of English agrarian history have been thrown into confusion by a recent claim that the earliest known reference to the growing of vetches as a field crop in England comes from Kent in I268, allegedly some ten years earlier than on the other side of the Channel.' That claim is now trumped by evidence for vetches at Ospringe in Kent in I238, so that 'it would appear that vetches may have been grown in Kent for many years befo…
Upstairs or Downstairs
Structural and documentary evidence is examined for the position of the principal chamber in houses of the richer peasantry between the Norman Conquest and the seventeenth century. It appears that in several parts of southern England the chamber was successively on the ground floor, the first floor, the ground floor again, and finally the upper floor again, although those phases were not simultaneous in different areas. The evidence for the secon…
Gazetteer of Archaic Roofs in Herefordshire and Worcestershire Churches
Common-rafter roofs are normally regarded as typical of eastern or 'lowland' England. In Hereford and Worcester so-called 'highland' double-framed purlin roofs, with principal rafters or crucks, are almost universal in vernacular buildings. This paper describes twelve common-rafter roofs in parish churches, and one in a house, which have features characteristic of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. They are thus earlier than the roofs of the t…
Time and Chance
This reply concentrates on Mr Mercer's case, which seeks to adduce evidence against some of the specific arguments in 'Time and Chance'. Mr Peter Smith's case, which is more a restatement of traditional views, is discussed in the second part of the article
Short Reviews
Timber structure
The Unfulfilled Potential of the Documentary Sources
This paper discusses ways of integrating evidence from architectural remains and documents in the study of buildings. It begins with a quantitative bibliographical examination of the actual use of multidisciplinary, document-based approaches in studies of vernacular architecture since the later 1940s, showing the limits to progress. It goes on to discuss the types of sources that have been advocated and used in such studies, and the restrictions …
Odda's chapel, Ealdred's inscriptions? The Deerhurst inscriptions in some continental contexts
This article examines the inscriptions associated with Odda's chapel, Deerhurst, in the light of a quantitative analysis of terminology in early medieval lapidary inscriptions in Rome, western Germany and Normandy, and in the Liber Pontificalis. It suggests that they were the first fruits of a campaign by Bishop Ealdred to revive the practice of installing correctly formulated dedicatory inscriptions in churches in England, but that the campaign …
Why Historians Believe That Customary Tenants Normally Paid for Their Own Buildings
This paper rebuts Pamela Slocombe’s suggestion that manorial lords were principally responsible for building the houses of their customary (copyhold) tenants in the later Middle Ages. After briefly reviewing the evidence for landlords’ involvement in freeholds, leaseholds and urban buildings, taking note of previous studies of documentation of peasant building, and omitting published manorial accounts that say nothing about buildings, it examines…
Tenants’ Copies of Court Rolls in England and Wales Before 1400
While much has been written about the early development of copyhold, and the presumed origins in the fourteenth century of the practice of making copies of court roll entries for tenants, original copies have not been systematically sought or investigated. This article uses research in 38 repositories to analyse 176 copies of seigneurial court rolls, of which full transcripts are published online elsewhere. It indicates their diverse physical and…
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