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Architecture, Designs and Plans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

Block Plan of the Barrages, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1209
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a block plan of the Barrages on the Nile River in Egypt showing the sand beds, the islands, the river branches and flooding information from the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

"Boodle's Club, London", 1933-1934

 File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/A/3/3
Scope and Contents

Architectural drawings by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a third year student at the Liverpool School of Architecture, for a project entitled "Boodles Club, London". There is one sheet of elevations, one sheet of sections and plans and one sheet of details. They are drawn in pencil with ink highlighting. This project was assessed on 5 May 1934.

Dates: 1933-1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / University of Liverpool studentships / Diploma in Architecture - student assignments / Third year assignments

Cemetery superintendent's house, 1937-1938

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/12
Scope and Contents

7 copy architectural plans (67cm x 99cm) for the cemetery superintendent's house at Willesden cemetery. The plans are at the scale 8 feet to 1 inch. They include plans, elevations and details. The credited architect was the borough engineer F Wayman Brown and the draftsman Percy Johnson-Marshall. However, it is believed that Percy Johnson-Marshall was actually the architect for this project.

Dates: 1937-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council / Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council

Church End Housing Scheme 2, 1936-1937

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/13
Scope and Contents 5 copy architectural plans (70cm x 100cm) for a Church End Housing Scheme 2 in Willesden. They include plans for blocks C, E and D; elevations plans and sections for block H; and revised plans for blocks G and F, all at 8 feet to 1 inch scale. The architect for the original plans was the borough engineer F Wilkinson, the architect for the revised plans was his successor F Wayland Brown. There are also 2 copies of a plan for a typical 2 bedroom house at 2 feet to 1 inch scale. It is possible...
Dates: 1936-1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council / Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council

City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh development plan - Southside District Plan - 1957 zoning, 1973

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/C/4.3
Scope and Contents

Copy of plan (90cm x 116cm) by the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh showing details of land-use zoning in 1957 within the boundary of their South Side District Plan. The information is hand painted onto an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale with the boundary of the district plan marked on it. There is a coloured legend to the ownership parcels.

Dates: 1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Percy Johnson-Marshall Associates / University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area / Edinburgh South Side District Plan: general papers / Edinburgh South Side District Plan: plans

City of London: New Barbican, c1953-1959

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2
Scope and Contents Photographs, plans and reports, collected by Percy Johnson-Marshall while in charge of the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. These concern the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London reports and the public enquiry, (1953-1959) redevelopment plans,...
Dates: c1953-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London

City of London: Tower of London Precinct, c1957-c1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.4
Scope and Contents

File of papers relating to London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 4: Tower of London Precinct. The file contains a planning brochure for the planned precinct, a layout plan by the Corporation of London City Planning Office overdrawn on an Ordnance Survey plan at 1:1250 scale (possibly reduced in size), and some typescript notes concerning the area.

Dates: c1957-c1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London

Competition for a glasshouse, 1937

 File
Identifier: PJM/UOL/C/4
Scope and Contents Architectural drawings (53cm x 76cm) by Percy Johnson-Marshall and JH Parker undertaken whilst Percy Johnson-Marshall was a student at the University of Liverpool Department of Civic Design. These are competition drawings entitled "competition for a glasshouse". The design is presented as two sheets; one with sections, plans and elevations and one with plans and elevations. They are drawn in pencil and ink with a water-colour wash. The drawings are accompanied by a report and a declaration...
Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / University of Liverpool studentships / Prize competitions

Comprehensive Development Areas: Bunhill Fields, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/6
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Bunhill Fields consists of:


  1. papers and photographs, ( 1950s )
  2. plans, ( 1950s )
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London, 1947-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1
Scope and Contents

Material relating to different areas of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. general, (1947-1958)
  2. New Barbican, (c1953-1959)
  3. Saint Paul's Cathedral Precinct, (c1950-1959)
  4. Tower of London Precinct, (c1957-c1959)
  5. City of London river frontages and skylines, (1955)
Dates: 1947-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

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