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On this page we suggest a number of other information resources of particular value for research into the work of C.F.A. Voysey.
Unexecuted competition design of 1904 by Voysey for Carnegie Library and Museum at Limerick, Ireland.
Museums
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds an extensive collection of Voysey clocks, furniture, textile designs and other items. Other museums with Voysey holdings include:
United Kingdom
- Brighton Museum
- British Museum, London : the decorative arts collection includes Voysey pieces, and the museum holds a large collection of his bookplate designs
- The Higgins, Bedford
- Jackfield Tile Museum, Ironbridge
- The John Lewis Partnership Heritage Centre, Cookham, Berkshire : includes the textile archive of Stead McAlpin, a fabric printing factory in Cummersdale near Carlisle that was once owned by the Partnership, with examples from designers such as Voysey and William Morris
- Museum of Carpet, Kidderminster
- Museum of the Home, Hoxton, London (formerly the Geffrye Museum)
- The Whitworth, part of the University of Manchester : home to a collection of more than 60,000 works of art, textiles and wallpapers, including Voysey material
- William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
- The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum : collection of Voysey furniture and other artefacts
United States
- Crab Tree Farm, Lake Bluff, Illinois : Several of the buildings display Arts & Crafts collections in appropriate settings, including work by Voysey
Libraries
The British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects is the principal collection of original Voysey drawings and other manuscript documents, much of which may be found in its RIBApix website.
The UK's six legal deposit libraries hold almost all recent British publications and much else besides. They are:
- British Library, London
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- University of Cambridge
- University of Oxford
- Trinity College Dublin
Websites
The website www.voysey.gotik-romanik.de *, created and maintained by Dr.-Ing. Heinz Theuerkauf of Munich, Germany, is the most comprehensive online compilation of information about Voysey. See also the same author's collection of black and white photographs of Voysey houses taken in 1976 : Dr Theuerkauf's Flickr site *.
Other useful sites include:
- Archiseek * : an online architectural magazine based in Ireland; includes drawings of and commentary on Voysey buildings
- The AHRnet Biographical dictionary of British and Irish architects, 1800-1950 includes entries extracted from the Art History Research net database
- Historic England Archive : over 1 million catalogue entries describing photographs, plans and drawings of England's buildings and historic sites
- Heritage Gateway : cross-search 49 resources, including over 50% of local English Historic Environment Records, the National Heritage List for England (including listed buildings), and 6 other national resources, including Images of England
- Mapping the practice and profession of sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851-1951 : includes some brief biographical details of Voysey, and a useful list of meetings at which he spoke at the Art Workers Guild between 1895 and 1924
- The Victorian web : literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria, compiled and maintained by Brown University, Rhode Island, USA : sections on Voysey's Architecture ; and Design
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Page last amended 2nd August 2026