Catalogue description ROBERT HERBERT FLOOD OF NORWICH, STONEMASON AND ANTIQUARY, 1870s-1936

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Details of MC 630
Reference: MC 630
Title: ROBERT HERBERT FLOOD OF NORWICH, STONEMASON AND ANTIQUARY, 1870s-1936
Description:

Personal and Professional Papers
Date: 1703-1945
Held by: Norfolk Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Flood, Robert Herbert, 1862-1936, of Norwich, Norfolk, stonemason and antiquary
Physical description: 270 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by Norfolk Record Office on 19 May 1995 (MS 33570)
Administrative / biographical background:

R.H. Flood was apprenticed in 1877 at the age of 15 as a stonemason in Norwich. He spent his life as a working mason, specialising in restoration work and developing a strong and scholarly interest in the history of his craft and the stonework of East Anglian buildings including Seven Sacrament fonts, medieval graffiti, mass-dials and masons' marks, and in the history of Norwich, in particular of the parishes and churches of the Ber Street/King Street area. He lived at 25 Geoffrey Road, and died in 1936. His Description of St. Julian's Church, Norwich and an account of Dame Julian's connection with it was published shortly after his death.
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