Elizabeth Chesterton

Dame Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton
DBE
Born (1915-10-12)12 October 1915
Died 18 August 2002(2002-08-18) (aged 86)
Nationality British
Occupation Architect
Awards Order of the British Empire
Practice Cambridgeshire County Council,
Architectural Association School of Architecture

Dame Elizabeth Ursula Chesterton, DBE (12 October 1915 – 18 August 2002) was a British architect and town planner.

Education

She studied with Leonard Manasseh at the Architectural Association in the late 1930s.[1]

Career

She combined her work as a planning officer, working for Cambridgeshire County Council from 1947, with teaching at University College London and later at the Architectural Association. She worked with the notable architects Ann MacEwan and Richard Llewellyn Davies.[2]

She served on the Royal Fine Art Commission, the National Trust's Architectural Panel and the Historic Buildings Council (later part of English Heritage) from the 1970s until the 1990s.

Chesterton was appointed DBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours.

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/25) with Elizabeth Chesterton in 1997 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Elain, Harwood. "Dame Elizabeth Chesterton". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Darling, ‘MacEwen , Ann Maitland (1918–2008)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2012 accessed 13 Feb 2017
  3. ↑ National Life Stories, 'Chesterton, Elizabeth (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1997. Retrieved 10 April 2018

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