ARCHIVE
Saturday, August 30th to Sunday, September 28th 2025; Mondays, 12-5; Tuesdays, 10-5.
AVEBURY: Drawn & Quartered, an exhibition about how Avebury has been recorded and reshaped, those whom it has inspired and some who have called it home, held in Avebury Chapel.
Sources used in this free exhibition:
MONUMENTAL CHANGES Poster
1. Line drawing by Margery Gretton
2. Stukeley’s portraits of Ruben Horsall & Tom Robinson are in Stukeley, W. Abury: A Temple of the British Druids. London, 1743. Horsall’s image is at the end of Chapter VIII and Robinson’s at the end of Chapter X, as you can see in this facsimile: http://www.avebury-web.co.uk/AburyWS/AburyWS.html
3. Detail from William Stukeley’s sketch of ‘Atto de fe’ or stone-breaking at Avebury in 1724, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Gough Maps 231, as reproduced in ‘Sarsens’, National Trails. https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/top_50_sarsens/
MONUMENTAL CHANGES Timeline
2. John Aubrey’s portrait (© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) as reproduced in https://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/john-aubrey-englands-first-archaeologist/
3. Aubrey’s map of Avebury as reproduced in https://megalithicmaps.com/avebury-maps-and-plans/
4. William Stukeley’s portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (1646 - 1723) engraved by John Smith from the Royal Academy Collection.
5. Stukeley’s map of Avebury from Stukeley, W. Abury: A Temple of the British Druids. London, 1743 as reproduced in https://megalithicmaps.com/avebury-maps-and-plans/
6. Ruben Horsall’s account of the stones as recorded in Stukeley, W. Abury: A Temple of the British Druids. London, 1743.
7. Portrait of Richard Colt Hoare from the frontispiece to Volume I of his History of Modern Wiltshire, 1822-44, as reproduced in https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/antiquarians-sir-richard-colt-hoare-1758-1838/
8. Photograph of British Roman Antiquities of Wiltshire in 1884 as reproduced in https://exploringavebury.com/ac-smith-maps
9. A. C. Smith’s sketch map of Avebury, Wiltshire Museum DZSWS.MSS.4084 - Bound notes of the mapping of antiquities within 100 Square Miles around Avebury, by the Rev. A.C. Smith (of Yatesbury and afterwards of Old Park, Devizes. The map is spread across pages 135-6.
10. Sir John Lubbock from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A. 1867, as reproduced in https://theearthmuseum.co.uk/darwins-apprentice-the-collections-of-john-lubbock-1st-lord-avebury
11. Photograph of Maud Cunnington, Wiltshire Museum _ DZSWS:2018.7040
12. Portrait of Harold St George Gray, Somerset County Council, as reproduced in https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/harold-st-george-gray-18721963-41058
13. Harold St George Gray’s team standing on sections cut through the Avebury ditch in Cutting IX in April 1922. Alexander Keiller Museum, accession number AVBAKP088 & Avebury’s Northern Inner Circle in May 1911, Alexander Keiller Museum, accession number 78510050. See: https://www.aveburypapers.org/the-curious-case-of-mrs-st-george-gray-and-the-west-kennet-avenue-axe-part-2/
14. Photograph of Alexander Keiller from Alexander Keiller Museum, accession number 78510414-006.
15. Photographs of Keiller’s team re-erecting the stones from the Historic England Archive
16. Doris Emerson Chapman, drawings from the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes DZSWS:Book.13939 - Excavation of an Untouched Chamber in the Lanhill Long Barrow/ Keiller, Alexander and Piggott, Stuart/ Morven Institute of Archaeological Research/ 1938 as reproduced on page 931 of the Illustrated London News, 27 May 1939 pasted into volume UU, pp.150-1, accession number MSS.4860.
17. Photograph of Stuart Piggott as reproduced in https://stuart-piggott-poetry.com/
18. Photograph of Isobel Foster Smith as reproduced in https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/jan/17/obituaries.guardianobituaries
19. Photograph of Wayland Young as reproduced in https://keithpurtell.com/bio-wayland-young.php
20. Photograph of Faith Vatcher as reproduced in https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/archaeologists-of-stonehenge/
21. Photograph of Kate Fielden as reproduced in https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/kate-fielden-remembered/
QUARTERED Posters
2. Photograph of Frederick John Kempster and his sister, Ruth, as reproduced in https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11312989.the-gentle-giant-who-just-grew-and-grew/
3. Photograph of Nora Stewart Jenner (© Alexander Keiller Museum) as reproduced in https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltshire/avebury/avebury-manor-1921-census
4. Photograph of Leopold Jenner (© IWM, HU 116377) as reproduced in the Imperial War Museum online collection https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205302047
5. Photograph of five evacuee children in the garden of Avebury Manor, dated 1940 on the reverse, © Alexander Keiller Museum – 20000571, digitised as part of the Avebury Papers Project. Leonard Middleton’s account of his first day in Avebury is in the WW2 People’s War archive of people’s memories of the war gathered by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/64/a4319264.shtml
6. Photograph of John Rawlins as reproduced in https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14570838.an-idyllic-childhood-remembered-says-barry-leighton/
7. Photograph of William Beveridge and Jessy Mair (AP Photo) as reproduced in https://flashbak.com/caxton-hall-in-westminster-where-the-stars-got-married-22648/london-sir-william-beveridge-marries/
8. Photograph of Ludovic Kennedy and Moira Shearer as reproduced in https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/4696041.ludovic-kennedy/
9. Photograph of Julian Cope taken by Sam Frost for the Guardian as reproduced in https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jun/27/julian-cope-interview-visionary-state-wild-beast
In between
Wiltshire Sarsen Stones - a comic, as reproduced in https://wshc.org.uk/wiltshire-sarsen-stones/, © Katy Whitaker @ artfactual_KW by permission of the artist.
DRAWN Posters
2. Profile of William Morris detected on a standing stone at Avebury, Wiltshire, 2013 by Jeremy Deller as reproduced in https://www.themoderninstitute.com/enquire/profile-of-william-morris-detected-on-a-standing-stone-at-avebury-wiltshire-2013/1018
3. Paul Nash, Landscape of the Megaliths, Lithograph, 1937, Wiltshire Museum _ 2017.1006
4. Bill Brandt, Avebury: After Thomas Hardy (Stone Circle, Wiltshire) as reproduced in https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/bill-brandt/avebury-after-thomas-hardy-stone-circle-wiltshire/
5. Photograph of copy of Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman from https://www.amazon.co.uk/Summoned-Bells-Autobiography-John-Betjeman/dp/0719560314
6. Photograph by David Bailey for the Rolling Stones ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ single, published in Italian fan magazine Giovani, March 1969, as reproduced in https://www.tumblr.com/mannymuc/658199315853000704/impressive-stones-at-avebury-henge-1968-a-rarely
8. Photograph of copy of Children of the Stones as reproduced at https://www.abebooks.com/9781781960875/Children-Stones-Jeremy-Burnham-Trevor-1781960879/plp
9. Photograph of Frank Parsons reproduced courtesy of Frank Parsons
10. Photograph of copy of On Silbury Hill as reproduced in https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/little-toller/on-silbury-hill/
11. ‘From the Ridgeway, Avebury’ reproduced courtesy of Pascale Stacey
12. ‘Partial Solar Eclipse, 20th March 2015’ reproduced courtesy of Richard Draper
13. Photograph of Kerry McKenna’s postbox topper taken by Margery Gretton
14. Photograph courtesy of Angela Norman
15. Photograph of copy of Jerusalem script as reproduced in https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jerusalem-NHB-Modern-Plays-Butterworth/dp/1848420501
16. Photograph courtesy of David White
17. Illustrations courtesy of Chris Dunn
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
Books & articles
Edwards, B. ‘Changing Avebury’, from ‘The Regional Historian’, The Newsletter of the Regional
History Centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Issue no. 12, Spring 2004
Gillings, M. & Pollard, J. Avebury. London: Duckworth, 2004.
Raymond, S. Avebury Without the Stones: A Social History, c. 1550-1800. Gloucester: The Hobnob Press, 2024
Websites & online articles:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp86-105
https://www.avebury-web.co.uk/index.html
https://escapetobritain.com/avebury-manor/
https://escapetobritain.com/avebury-church-of-st-james/
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol12/pp86-105#fnn111