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(born 17 May 1941) is a British
architectural historian
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Professional requirements
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who was series editor of the
Pevsner Architectural Guides
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from 1971 until 2002, and is the author or co-author of several volumes in the series.CHERRY, Bridget Katherine ''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
Family and education
Cherry is the elder sister of the
neurosurgeon
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Lady Margaret Hall
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, Oxford University, matriculating in 1960. She went on to study History of Art at the
Courtauld Institute of Art
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, specialising in English
Romanesque architecture
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.
Career
Pevsner Architectural Guides
Cherry began work on the ''
Buildings of England
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'' series as
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
's research assistant in 1968, and from 1971 to 2002 was the series editor. She revised several volumes including Surrey, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Devon and Wiltshire, and authored or co-authored four of the London volumes (South, North-West, North and East).
Other interests
Cherry is vice-president of the Heritage of London Trust, a Council member of the
London Topographical Society
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Sir John Soane's Museum
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, London. Cherry previously served as a commissioner for
English Heritage
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Historic Royal Palaces
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These are:
* Tower of London
* Hampton Court Palace
* Kensington Palace (State Apartments and Orangery)
* The Banqueting Hous ...
. Following her retirement, she edits the London Topographical Society's newsletter.
Honours and awards
Cherry was appointed a Member of the
Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
Royal Institute of British Architects
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.
Publications
Books
* Northamptonshire. (2nd ed.) revised by Bridget Cherry. With contributions from Sir Gyles Isham and Bruce Bailey, 1973, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
* Dudmaston Shropshire: A souvenir guide / Bridget Cherry, 2018. Rotherham: National Trust.
* The buildings of England: a short history and bibliography / Bridget Cherry, 1983, Linton: Published for the Penguin Collectors' Society by Dalby.
* Ivy-Mantled Tower: a history of the church and churchyard of St. Mary Hornsey, Middlesex / Bridget Cherry, 2015, London: Hornsey Historical Society.
* London. 2, South / Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner 1994–2001, Harmondsworth: Penguin,
* London. 4, North / Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner, 2002, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press.
* London. 3, North West / Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, 2002, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press.
* The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: a short history and bibliography / Bridget Cherry, 1998, reat Britain Penguin Collectors' Society.
* London. 5, East / Bridget Cherry, Charles O'Brien and Nikolaus Pevsner; with contributions from Elizabeth Williamson, Malcolm Tucker and Pamela Greenwood. 2005, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press.
* Dissent and the gothic revival: papers from a study day at Union Chapel Islington / edited by Bridget Cherry. 2007, London: The Chapels Society.
* Hornsey Town Hall / Bridget Cherry, 1995, London: Hornsey Historical Society
* Civic pride in Hornsey: the Town Hall and its surrounding buildings / Bridget Cherry. c.2006, London: Hornsey Historical Society.
* Crouch End: a walk / Bridget Cherry and Ken Gay; illustrated by Peter Garland. 1995, London: Hornsey Historical Society.
Articles
* Bridget Cherry and Ken Gay, Crouch End, A Walk. (1995). The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society past and Present, 20(2), 126. Journal ISSN: 0305-8034
* Cherry, Bridget. (2019). BOOK REVIEW: THE ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL. The Antiquaries Journal, 99, 465. Journal ISSN: 0003–5815;
* Cherry, Bridget, Rawcliffe, Carole, Shoemaker, Robert B., & Darby, Nell. (2014). Survey of London, Volume 49, Battersea, Part I: Public Commercial and Cultural. The London Journal, 39, 168–174. Journal ISSN: 0305–8034;
* Cherry, Bridget, "London's Public Events and Ceremonies: an Overview Through Three Centuries". Architectural History, vol. 56, 2013, pp. 1–28. JSTOR
* Cherry, Bridget, and Nikolaus Pevsner. "The Modern Movement in Britain". Twentieth Century Architecture, no. 8, 2007, pp. 12–38. JSTOR,
* Cherry, Bridget. "Edward Hatton's New View of London". Architectural History, vol. 44, 2001, pp. 96–105. JSTOR,
* Cherry, Bridget. "An Early Sixteenth-Century London Tomb Design". Architectural History, vol. 27, 1984, pp. 86–95. JSTOR,
As contributor
* The buildings of England: further reading: a select bibliography / compiled by Tye Blackshaw, Bridget Cherry, Elisabeth Williamson.
* Northamptonshire / Bruce Bailey, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry. 2013, New Haven: Yale University Press.
* The best buildings of England / Nikolaus Pevsner; an anthology by Bridget Cherry and John Newman; with an introduction by John Newman, 1986, armondsworth Viking.
* The buildings of England: a celebration / edited by Simon Bradley and Bridget Cherry, 2001. Beccles: The Penguin Collectors' Society for the Buildings Books Trust.
* Bristol / Andrew Foyle; with contributions by Bridget Cherry, 2004, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press.
* Hertfordshire / James Bettley, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry; with contributions from Stewart Bryant, Lee Prosser and Alec Clifton-Taylor, 2019, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Photography
Photographs contributed by Cherry to the
Conway Library
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are currently (2020) being digitised by the
Courtauld Institute of Art
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