Office of Works and successors: Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings: Registered...

WORK 14

1699-1998

This series contains correspondence and papers relating to ancient monuments and historic buildings, on subjects including repair works and maintenance, acquisitions and taking into guardianship and details of archaeological excavations.

The majority of the files were registered in the AA series, with some relating to historic buildings in the AE series, but some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.

A few early files relate to Welsh sites.

Monthly reports of the Ancient Monuments Branch in BD 42

For related plans and drawings, see WORK 31

Other related material may be found among the records of the Historic Buildings Council for Wales in BD 34

Files re-registered in the HB series of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government are in

HLG 126

AA, AE and AM file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997
• Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
• Ministry of Public Building and Works, Controller Generals Division, 1967-1970
• Ministry of Public Building and Works, Directorate General of Works, 1962-1967
• Ministry of Works and Buildings, Directorate of Works, 1940-1942
• Ministry of Works and Planning, Directorate of Works, 1942-1943
• Ministry of Works, Directorate General of Works, 1946-1962
• Ministry of Works, Directorate of Works, 1943-1945
• Office of Works, Directorate of Works, 1920-1940
• Ordnance Office, Board of Ordnance, 1683-1855
• Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Accommodation, 1976-1990
• War Office, 1857-1964
• War Office, Fortifications Branch, 1855-1862
• War Office, Master General of the Ordnance, Directorate of Fortifications and Works, 1904-1927
• War Office, Quarter Master General, Directorate General of Works, 1959-1963
• War Office, Quarter Master General, Directorate of Fortifcations and Works, 1935-1959
• War Office, Works Department, 1862-1870
• War Office, Works Division, 1870-1887

3452 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2021 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

From 1935 Office of Works

Topics

Ancient Monuments and Historical Buildings

Series is accruing

The Ordnance Board was created within the War Office, from the Board of Ordnance in 1855. It consisted of a committee of munitions experts, whosepurpose was to advise the newly-formed Army Council on the safety and approvalof weapons. The registered files for ancient monuments and historic buildingswere held within the war office under various sub-departments until its transfer to the Department of the Environment, and later to DCMS where the file series was continued.