MORRIS'S WRITING ON ARCHITECTURE

Original Manifesto

Gothic Architecture 

"Address Made on Behalf of the Work of the S. P. A. B.," Huntington Library HM 6449

The Prospects of Architecture

MANUSCRIPTS

"Address Made on Behalf of the Work of the S.P.A.B.," Huntington Library HM 6449.

"Magdalen Bridge: Notes and Memoranda for the S.P.A.B.," Huntington Library HM 6451.

"Petition Regarding the Baptistry at Ravenna," Huntington Library HM 6455.

"Regarding the Opinion of the S. P. A. B. on the Restoration of St. Mark's, Venice," Huntington Library HM 6459.

"Speech Delivered to the First Meeting of the S.P.A.B.," Society of Antiquaries, SoA 832, manuscript draft. 

Speech Delivered to the First Meeting of the SPAB, Society of Antiquaries, SoA 832, ff. 1-23; misc. pages plus ff. 1-12 SPAB draft of opening statement, beginning, "A Society coming before the public. . . "; with 1st Annual Report, later printed, a good draft with cross-outs

"Statement on Restoration of St. Mark's," Huntington Library HM 6461.

"[Concerning] Westminster Abbey," Beinecke Library MS Vault Shelves Morris, autograph manuscript. 

Westminster Abbey leaflet, Berg Collection, New York City Public Library, autograph manuscript. 

Annual Reports and Other SPAB-Related Letters and Documents by Morris

• First Annual Report, June 21st, 1878
• Second Annual Report SPAB
• Third Annual Report SPAB
• Fourth Annual Report SPAB
• Fifth Annual Report SPAB
• Sixth Annual Report SPAB
• Seventh Annual Report SPAB
• Eighth Annual Report SPAB
• 1887 Speech Proposing Adoption of Annual Report
• Twelfth Annual Report SPAB
• Fifteenth Annual Report SPAB
• Manifesto of the SPAB
• Aims of SPAB
• Speech for Fund on Repair of Ancient Buildings
• Speech proposing adoption of annual buildings report 1887
• Speech Seconding a Resolution Against Restoration
• Speech Seconding a Vote of Thanks to James Bryce, M. P.
• On the External Covering of Roofs
• On Specific Buildings
  • Ashburham House
  • Blytheborough Church
  • Blundell’s School, Tiverton
  • Baptistry, Ravenna
  • Chichester Cathedral
  • High Wycombe Grammar School
  • Magdalen Bridge
  • Oxford, Vandalism of
  • Peterborough Cathedral
  • Peterborough Cathedral IV
  • Peterborough Cathedral V
  • Stratford-Upon-Avon Church
  • Tewksbury Minster
  • Tewksbury Minster, Restoration of
  • Vandalism in Italy 1882
  • Destruction of City Churches
  • St. Albans Cathedral 1
  • St. Albans Cathedral 2
  • St. Marks Venice 1
  • St. Marks Venice 2
  • St. Marks Venice 3
  • Southwell Minster 1
  • Southwell Minster 2
  • Monuments in Westminster Chapel
  • Mr. Shaw Lefebre’s Monuments Chapel
  • Westminster Hall
  • Westminster Abbey, Proposed Addition
  • Westminster Abbey, Restoration of
  • Westminster Abbey 1893
  • Westminster Abbey, Letter 1894

Buildings of Concern to the SPAB, 1877-1910

• Ashburton House
• Ashburnham House
• Bishops Canning Church, Norfolk
• Blytheborough Church
• Blundell's School, Tiverton
• Canterbury Cathedral
• Chichester Cathedral
• City Churches
• Deepham Church, Norfolk
• Eastleach, Turvill and Martin
• Edington Church
• Ely, St. Mary’s
• Fairford Church
• Frodingay North Church
• Great Coxwell Tithe Barn
• Great Wilbraham Church, Cambs
• Greenford Church, Ealing
• High Wycomb Grammar School
• Inglesham Church 1887
• Irthlinborough Church, Norfolk
• Kelmscott Church, Oxon
• LLanbadarn
• London, Islington Charter House
• Muchelney, Old Priest’s House
• Murton Hall, Westmoreland
• Mr. Shaw Lefevre's Monumental Chapel
• Newcastle, Cariol Tower
• Nidderdale Bridge
• North Allerton Church
• North Frodlingham
• Ockwells Manor, Berks
• Oswaldkirk Church, York
• Oxford, St. Mary’s Church Tower
• Peterborough Cathedral
• Rouen Cathedral, France
• Ravenna, Baptistry
• Rottingdean Church, Sussex (Jane Morris)
• Rye Church, Suffolk
• Salisbury Cathedral
• St. Albans Abbey, Herts.
• St. Germain Cathedral
• St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice
• Southwell Minster
• Stratford-Upon-Avon Church
• Tewkesbury Minster
• Thane Church
• Trinity Almshouses
• Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
• Westminster Abbey, tombs
• Westminster Abbey, proposed addition
• Wimborne Minster, Dorset

Supplementary Materials

The Society of Ancient Buildings Today

"The Gothic Revival, I," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(10). Delivered March 3, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

"The Gothic Revival, II," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(1). Delivered March 10, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

Chronology from the Marxists.org Archive [in process]