About the BRF Collection
The Byzantine Research Fund Archive (BRF) is a unique collection of architectural drawings, photographs and notebooks created from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century by a small team of British architects trained in the Arts & Crafts tradition whose studies of Byzantium shaped the Byzantine Revival in later years.
The collection contains over 1,500 drawings and 1,000 photographs, numerous notebooks and the corporate records associated with the Byzantine Research and Publication Fund, the original body created in 1907 to support this work. Although the Fund was associated with the BSA from the time it was founded, it was not until 1937 that the BSA formerly took over the property and operation of it. The BRF Archive contains records of Byzantine monuments in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the Near East, Egypt, and Cyprus. In some cases, the collection contains the only record of a monument before its destruction in modern times, the most important example being the church of Hagios Demetrios in Thessalonike which was almost completely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1917 shortly after being recorded by one of the BRF architects, Walter Sykes George. It also contains personal records of the following architects; Robert Weir Schultz, Sidney Howard Barnsley, Walter Sykes George, William Harvey, Harold Swainson, Peter Gus Corbett, and A.H.S (Peter) Megaw. The aspirations of the BRF Archive Project today are to make these materials accessible to a wide range of researchers.
Topographical map of the district around the monastery.
South-west view of the Great church showing the exo-narthex. The exo-narthex of the Katholikon was removed in the late 16th c. This is a preliminary drawing. It has been cancelled as experimental. Further annotation in pencil survives.
South-west view showing the exo-narthex. The exo-narthex of the Katholikon was removed in the late 16th c. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
South-west view of the Great church showing the exo-narthex. The exo-narthex of the Katholikon was removed in the late 16th c. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Panagia church - Plan of the narthex. This is a preliminary drawing. It is labelled in ink: 'Small Church', 'Narthex of Small Church and Room over Same'. Further annotation in ink and pencil survives.
Plan of the galleries and the dome. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Gallery plan of the two churches. This is a print of a published gallery plan of the two churches. It is labelled in Greek: 'Α Ο ναός του οσίου Λουκά', 'Β Ο ναός της Θεοτόκου'.
Ground plan. This is a preliminary drawing. It consists of two parts. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Plan of the holy bema (central apse). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives. On the reverse: Part of dated lithograph (28/12/1895) of unknown buildings. P.Rodeck (1896-1897) also contributed on drawings of this church.
Part of the ground plan of the church. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Ground plan. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Plan of the forecourt of the church. This is a preliminary drawing. It is entitled in ink: 'Hosios Loukas: Forecourt of the Smaller Church'. Further annotation in pencil survives. Lower right corner signed by Rodeck in ink, "Pieter Rodeck, measured and drawn on the [spot], August 9, 1897"
Lomgitudinal section. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Detail of band around walls at the level of the gallery. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in ink survives.
Various details of string courses, doors, marble panels, inlaid bands. The rawing is entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis'. It is labelled as follows: 'String Course Round Inside of Dome', 'Carved String Course Round Apses of Small Church', 'Detached Fragment of String Course', 'String Course Round Topof Marble Panels', 'Shelf in South Transept', 'Inlaid Band Round Walls at Level of Gallery', 'Door to Narthex Small Church', 'Dooeway Shewing Painted Decoration', 'Details of Door from Narthex into Great Church', 'Details of Various Doors' and 'Various Details of String Courses, Doors, etc.'. Further annotation in ink survives.
Doorways, lintels. The drawing is labelled: 'Doorway to North Transept' and 'West Doorway'.
Lintel (details). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Details of lintels, doorways and of the baptismal font (on the reverse). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Tympanum of west doorway (detail). This is a preliminary drawing in two sheets. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Tympanum of west doorway (detail). This is apreliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Gallery level- Carved slabs in lower parts of windows (details). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slabs filling the lower parts of window openings and fronts of galleries. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slabs filling the lower parts of window openings and fronts of galleries. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window, (on the reverse) Detail of the shrine of Hossios Loukas (north trancept). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. Further annotaion in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. Further annotaion in pencil survives.
Gallery level- Carved slab in lower part of window. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved lintel. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Carved slab in lower part of window. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Tympanum of west doorway (detail). The drawing is Entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis', 'Detail of West Doorway of Great Church'.
Carved slabs in lower parts of windows. The drawing is entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis', 'Carved Slabs Filling in Lower Parts Of Window Openings'. Further annotation in ink survives.
Carved slabs in lower parts of windows. The drawing is entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis', 'Carved Slabs Filling in Lower Parts Of Window Openings'. Further annotation in ink survives.
Katholikon, galleries - Carved slabs in lower parts of windows. The drawing is entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis', 'Carved Slabs Filling in Lower Parts Of Window Openings And Fronts of Galleries'. Further annotation in ink survives.
Carved slabs in lower parts of bema screen. The drawing is entitled: 'Monastery of St Luke of Stiris Phocis', 'Detail Of Carved Slabs In Lower Part of Screen To Bema In Great Church'.
Details of slabs and fragments. The drawing is entitled: 'Monastery Of St Luke Of Stiris Phocis', 'Details Of Shrine Of Various Slabs & Other Fragments'. Further annotation in ink survives.
Pierced window slab (detail). Further annotation in pencil survives.
Detached carved slab (detail). Further annotation in pencil survives.
Detached carved slab (detail). Further annotation in pencil survives.
Slab in the iconostasis. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Detail of the shrine of Hossios Loukas. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Dome - Carved slab. This is a preliminary Drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Dome elevation (detail with sculpture), Part of elevation (on the reverse). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Sculpture (capitals, slabs). This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Sculpture (details of parts of the epistyle (architrave) of the iconostasis screen. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Sculpture (details of capitals, slabs and of parts of the epistyle (architrave) of the iconostasis screen). Same on the reverse. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Sculpture (details of capitals, slabs and of parts of the epistyle (architrave) of the iconostasis screen). Same on the reverse. This is a preliminary Drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.
Proskynitarion. This is a preliminary drawing. Further annotation in pencil survives.