Newsletters are published annually.
Note that Newsletter Numbers do not correlate with AGM and Conference Numbers.
Newsletter Number – 1
Date – Apr 1986
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – C17 Quay Buildings, Exeter
Author – Chris Henderson
Article -Tavistock Pannier Market
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Charles Fowler’s 1840s Mental Hospital, Exminster
Author – Chris Brooks & Jo Cox
Article – Heritage work by the Manpower Services Commission
Author – David Evans
Article – Devon & Cornwall Master Thatchers’ Association Conference
Author – Jo Cox & James Moir
Newsletter Number – 2
Date – Oct 1986
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – 1840s Newlands Farm, Killerton, Broadclyst
Author – Isabel Richardson
Article – Victorian Defences of Plymouth
Author – David Evans
Article – 1910 ‘Coxen’, Budleigh Salterton
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Report on the Plasterwork Conference
Author – Peter Child
Newsletter Number – 3
Date – Apr 1987
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Exeter’s Guildhall
Author – Stuart Blaylock
Article – Late medieval Pauls Shop, Germansweek
Author – Jenefer Chesher
Article – The Carpenter/Builder Phillips Family of Woodbury
Author – Ursula Brighouse
Article – Cross House, Bishopsteignton
Author – Jo Cox
Newsletter Number – 4
Date – Oct 1987
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Inside Story: implications of listing protection
Author – Jenny Chesher & Veronica Chesher
Article – Bridgeland Street, Bideford
Author – John Thorp
Article – Conversion of Farm Buildings
Author – Jo Cox
Newsletter Number – 5
Date – Apr 1988
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Old Blundell’s School, Tiverton
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Fortifications of Berry Head
Author – David Evans
Article – John Wills & the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Dartmouth
Author – Chris Brooks & Roger Thorne
Article – Conservation of Holy Trinity Church, Torbryan
Author – Jo Cox & Peter Dare
Newsletter Number – 6
Date – Oct 1988
Articles – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Articles – Court House, North Molton
Author – Pauline Brain
Articles – Barn Conversions (statistics)
Author – Brian Blakeway, Chris Brooks & Jo Cox
Articles – Sgraffito at Colaton Raleigh & Winkleigh Churches
Author – Chris Brooks & Bruce Induni
Articles – Fortifications & Other Matters
Author – David Evans
Articles – Hallelujah! A New (chapel) Society
Author – Roger Thorne
Newsletter Number – 7
Date – Jun 1989
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – DNP New Conversion Policy for Farm Buildings
Author – Freda Wilkinson
Article – Repairs to the Ceiling Paintings at Great Potheridge
Author – Liz Induni
Newsletter Number – 8
Date – Feb 1990
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Silverton Mill
Author – Isabel Richardson & Su Huxley
Article – Tiverton Transformed
Author – Mark Lewis
Article – Exeter Guildhall: A Conservation Report
Author – Andrew Lawson
Article – Economic Growth & The Conservation of Historic Buildings in Devon
Author – Chris Brooks
Newsletter Number – 9
Date – Oct 1990
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author -Chris Brooks
Article – Longhouse at Lower Chaddlehanger, Lamerton
Author – John Thorp
Article – Practical Uses of Limewash
Author – Bruce & Liz Induni
Article – Yarde Farm, Malborough
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Buildings at Risk
Author – Jenefer Chesher
Newsletter Number – 10
Date – Jul 1991
Article – Editorial
Author -Chris Brooks
Article – The Roadford Operation
Author – Brian Blakeway
Article – Review of the Development Control Division, Mid Devon District Council
Author – Mark Lewis
Article – Notes on the Development of the Box Frame Window
Author – Jonathan Flint
Article – Sudden Death in Dartmouth: Obituary for the Methodist Church
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Sticklepath Farm, Barnstaple
Author – Pauline Brain
Article – Some Aspects of Architectural Conservation in France
Author – Caroline Fay
Article – Cob
Author – Paul Bedford
Article – Request for Information on Pegged Slates in Devin
Author – Jo Cox & John Thorp
Newsletter Number – 11
Date – Feb 1992
Article – Editorial: Chapels Perilous
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Inserting a Roof Truss into Gotham, Bakers Hill, Tiverton
Author – Mark Lewis
Article – A la Ronde, Exmouth
Author – Hugh Meller
Article – Discovering a C17 Yeoman’s House & Family, Zeal Monachorum
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Request for Assistance: Romanesque Sculpture in Devon
Author – Francis Kelly
Newsletter Number – 12
Date – Mar 1994
Article – Editorial
Author – Su Jarwood
Article – Bare Ruined Choirs: Coming Problems & Devon’s Historic Churches
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – John Betjeman Memorial Award
Author – Su Jarwood & Andrew Lawson
Article – Devon’s Historic Buildings: New Discoveries
Author – Jo Cox
Article – The Demise of Steart Farm, Stoodleigh
Author – Mark Lewis
Article – Puzzles at Potheridge
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Barnstaple Conservation Area Advisory Committee
Author – Pauline Brain
Article – Casework in Practice: Some Thoughts for the DBG
Author – Jeremy Musson
Article – Contents Summary for Newsletter Nos. 1-12
Author – Roger Thorne
Newsletter Number – 13
Date – Jan 1995
Article – Editorial
Author – Su Jarwood
Article – Devon’s Historic Buildings Need You!
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Devon & Cornwall Medieval Stained Glass: Information, Please
Author – Chris Brooks and David Evans
Article – Sources in the Devon Record Office for the History of Buildings
Author – Margery Rowe
Article – Ecclesiastical Glebe Terriers as a Source of Building Descriptions
Author – Ann Adams
Article – A Bishops Tawton Wall Monument (Sir Francis Chichester)
Author – Torquil McNeillage
Article – A Part of Bradford That is Forever Black Torrington
Author – Roger Thorne
Article – Dartmouth Methodist Chapel
Author – Caroline Fay
Article – Bideford Quay
Author – Jeremy Sharpe
Article – Marker’s Cottage
Author – Isabel Richardson
Article – Cob Revival: The Work of the Devon Earth Building Association
Author – Larry Keefe
Article – Help Please! (with a gazetteer of Devon church monuments
Author – Chris Faunch
Newsletter Number – 14
Date – Jan 1996
Article – Editorial
Author – Su Jarwood
Article – A Crediton Perambulation (report on AGM 9 venue)
Author – Chris Brooks
Article – Bee Boles & Other Beekeeping Monuments in Devon
Author – Robert Ogden
Article – Nonconformist Notes & Methodist Musings – 1: Change & Decay
Author – Roger Thorne
Article – A Cob Building: Notes on Renewal
Author – Isabel Richardson
Article – Incised Slabs in Devon
Author – David Cook
Article – The Green Man in Devon
Author – Su Jarwood
Article – Smoking Chambers in Devon: particularly in the South Hams
Author – Robert Waterhouse
Newsletter Number – 15
Date – Apr 1997
Article – Editorial
Author – Jim Cheshire
Article – The Beer Studio: part 1
Author – Jim Cheshire
Article – Chinese Wallpapers at Saltram
Author – Ceri Johnson
Article – A Visit to Rural West Devon (report on AGM 10 venue)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Glebe Cottage, Shaugh Prior, South West Devon
Author – Robert Waterhouse
Article – Frank Chesher (an obituary)
Author – Michael Laithwaite
Article – Group News (with notes on Conference 11 and AGM 11)
Author – Ann Adams
Newsletter Number – 16
Date – Feb 1998
Article – Secretary’s Report (with reports on Conference 12 & AGM 12)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Smoking Chambers in Devon: part 2
Author – Robert Waterhouse
Article – Casework 1997
Author – Peter Roseveare
Article – Two Mid-Devon Longhouses
Author – Nat Alcock
Article – Wall Paintings at the Bell Inn, Moretonhampstead
Author – Ann Adams & Jeremy Sharpe
Newsletter Number – 17
Date – Apr 1999
Article – Secretary’s Report (with reports on Conference 13 & AGM 13)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Casework Notes
Author – Peter Roseveare
Article – Broad Hall, North Tawton
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Country House Squash Courts in Devon
Author – Hugh Meller
Article – Foxhole Farmhouse, Halwill
Author – Jenny Sanders & Ann Adams
Newsletter Number – 18
Date – Jun 2000
Article – Review of 1999 (with reports on Conference 14 & AGM 14
Author – Ann Adams
Article – The (new) Drake Chamber Ceiling at Buckland Abbey
Author – Jane Schofield
Article – Anna Hulbert* (an obituary)
Author – Eddie Sinclair
Article – Protective Charms on Devon Buildings
Author – John Thorp
Article – James Ravilious (an obituary)
Author – Peter Beacham
Newsletter Number – 19
Date – Apr 2001
Article – Review of 2000 (with reports on Conference 15 & AGM 15)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Bowden Farmstead, Buckland-in-the-Moor
Author – Jenny Sanders & John Dallimore
Article – The Inventory of John Ayshford
Author – John Thorp, Jo Cox & Anita Travers
Article – Recent Discoveries at No 21 The Mint, Exeter
Author – Richard Parker
Article – Conservation Plans
Author – Jo Cox
Newsletter Number – 20
Date – Jun 2002
Article – Review of the Year (with reports on Conferences 16 & 17 & AGM 16)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Professor Chris Brooks (an obituary)
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Aidan Matthews (an obituary)
Author – Stewart Brown
Article – Investigating Devon’s Parish Churches: useful sources
Author – Jo Cox & Anita Travers
Article – An Unusual Carpentry Joint at St Constantine’s, Milton Abbot
Author – Stewart Brown
Newsletter Number – 21
Date – Jul 2003
Article – Review of the Year ( with reports on AGM 17 & Conference 18)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Notices (exhibition of historic maps, Exeter; DCC thatching leaflet
Article – Poltimore House, near Exeter
Author – Peter Child
Article – Evidence for Shingled Roofs in Devon & Somerset Churches
Author – Stuart Blaylock
Article – Audrey Erskine (obituary notice)
Newsletter Number – 22
Date – Oct 2004
Article – Review of the Year (with report on AGM 18)
Author – Ann Adams
Article – School Buildings in Exeter 1800-1939 (history & gazetteer: 37)
Author – Richard Parker
Newsletter Number – 23
Date – Aut 2005
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Editor’s Review of 2004
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Hartland
Author – Ann Adams
Article – To Pew or Not to Pew?: A Report on the English Heritage Lydiard Tregoze Conference, June 2005
Author – Stuart Blaylock
Article – Doors at Dartmouth
Author – a reader’s query
Article – Romanesque Sculpture: a request from the Courtauld Institute
Newsletter Number – 24
Date – Sum 2006
Article – Editor’s Report
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Scantle Slating at Addislade Farmhouse, Dean Prior
Author – Terry Hughes
Article – A Source of Information about Farm Buildings
Author – Jo Cox
Article – The Sidwell Street Methodist Church, Exeter
Author – Roger Thorne & Jo Cox
Newsletter Number – 25
Date – Sum 2007
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Newsletter Editor’s Report
Author – Ann Adams
Article – The Origins of Devon Bench Ends
Author – Joanna Mattingly
Article – Painted and Sgraffito Decorated Plaster on Fireplaces
Author – Ann Adams
Article – The Rise and Fall of the Box Pew
Author – Jo Cox
Newsletter Number – 26
Date – Aut 2008
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Newsletter Editor’s Report
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Medieval Arched Bridges in Devon
Author – Stewart Brown
Article – Bridge Engineering – A Beginner’s Guide
Author – Bill Harvey
Article – Exeter Bridges
Author – Bill Harvey
Article – Exeter schools 1800-1845: An Update
Author – Stuart Blaylock and Richard Parker
Newsletter Number -27
Date – Aut 2009
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Newsletter Editor’s Report
Author – Ann Adams
Article – Whimple Church: the value of Documentary Research to Support
Understanding an 1845 Restoration
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Parkham Wood House, Brixham
Author – Peter Child
Article – Precursors of the Military Training Simulator at Stonehouse Barracks
Author – David Evans
Article – The Rebirth of the DBG Website
Authors – Caroline Garrett and Peter Marlow
Article – Some Early Photographs of Bradfield Manor From the National
Monuments Record
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Book Review: West Country Farms. House and estate Surveys
1598 – 1764
Author – Peter Child
Newsletter Number -28
Date – Sum 2010
Article – Introduction
Author – Peter O. Marlow
Article – Treasurer / Membership Secretary’s Report 2009
Author – Lyn Auty
Article – Devon Medieval Windmill Icons
Author – Martin Watts
Article – Another Post-War Listing
Author – Peter Child
Article – The Rise & Fall of Okehampton Workhouse
Author – Richard K Morriss
Article – The Walronds, Part I
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Corrugated Iron in Dorset (and a Taster of Devon)
Author – Lizzie Induni
Article – The Bathing House at Elbury Cove, Churston Ferrers
Author – Peggie Upham
Article – The DBG Website: A Report on Latest News and Topical Issues
Author – Peter O. Marlow and Caroline Garrett
Newsletter Number – 29
Date – Summer 2011
Article – Secretary’s Report 2009-2010
Author – Peter Child
Article – Treasurer / Membership Secretary’s Report 2009-2010
Author – Lyn Auty
Article – Ann
Author – Peter Child
Article – Reconstruction Drawings
Author – Richard Parker
Article – Down and Out, Some Lost and Forgotten Devon Country Houses
Author – Hugh Meller
Article – Restoration of Exeter Cathedral 1970-1978
Author – Peter Dare
Article – The Walronds Part 2
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Changing Times for Dartmoor Longhouses
Author – Jenny Sanders
Article – A Tremendous Book
Author – Peter Child
Article – Website Extracts 2010-2011
Author – Peter O. Marlow and Caroline Garrett
Newsletter Number – 30
Date – Summer 2012
Article – Secretary’s Report 2010-2011
Author – Peter Child
Article – Treasurer / Membership Secretary’s Report 2010-2011
Author – Lyn Auty
Article – Organ Cases in Devon
Author – Nigel Browne
Article – High House, East Portlemouth and its 19th Century Ship Graffiti
Author – Robert Waterhouse
Article – An Anglo-Dutch Fireplace in Sidmouth
Author – David Jenkinson
Article – The Victorian Glasshouse and the work of Messenger and Co. in Devon
Author – Caroline Garrett
Article – The Repair of the Corn Ditch at Lower Hookner Farm, Bovey Tracey
Author – Tim Bucknall
Article – The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Victorian Cemetery: The Story of Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth
Author – Dr Henry Wills
Article – The Angels of All Saints Church, Plymouth
Author – Peter Marlow
Article – Book Review of Plymouth: Vision of a Modern City by Jeremy Gould
Author – Peter Child
Article – Book Review of A Noble Thing: The National Trust and its Benefactors by Merlin Waterson
Author – Peter Marlow
Article – Book Review of The English Medieval Roof: Crown Post to King Post ed. John Walker
Author – Peter Child
Article – Obituary of Christopher Powell
Author – Martin Watts
Newsletter Number – 31
Date – Summer 2013
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Treasurer/Membership Secretary’s Report
Author – Lyn Auty
Article – Sand, Sea, and Sermons: A Voyage Around Some Seaside Chapels
Author – Roger Thorne
Article – Local Heritage Listing
Author – Mark Stobbs
Article – The Anderton House
Author – Caroline Stanford
Article – Voysey’s Cottage Hospital at Halwill Junction
Author – Jo Cox
Article – A Victorian Timber-framed House Made in Halberton in Tierrra del Fuego
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Cobbles in Devon
Author – Peter Marlow
Article – Book Review of Robert Furse. A Devon Family Memoir of 1593, ed. Anita Travers
Author – Peter Child
Article – Book Review of Devon’s Ancient Bench Ends by Todd Gray
Author – Joanna Mattingly
Article – Book Review of Dartmoor’s Alluring Uplands. Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages by Harold Fox, ed. by Matthew Tompkins and Christopher Dyer
Author – Martin Cherry
Newsletter Number – 32
Date – Summer 2014
Article – Secretary’s Report
Author – Peter Child
Article – Treasurer’s Report
Author – Lyn Auty
Article – The Walronds
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Plymouth 19th Century Churches
Author – Peter Child
Article – Stop Press: St Simon’s, Mount Gould
Author – Peter Child
Article – The Sharpham Staircase
Author – Bill Harvey
Article – The Origins and Early Years of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society (1837-47)
Author – Martin Cherry
Article – The Curious Case of a Hare and a Coney
Author – John R L Thorp
Article – A Barn at Cadbury and the Pulley Question
Author – Peter Child
Article – Spot the Difference: Stoneman and Bowker
Author – Jo Cox
Article – Book Review of ‘Of Sirens and Centaurs: Medieval Sculpture at Exeter Cathedral’
Author – Alex Woodcock