Her father would regularly live at sites where the buildings were being erected, including running the company that designed Royal Shakespeare Theatre under Elisabeth Scott.
[2] In 1947, Chesterton joined Cambridgeshire County Council as a development control officer, then from 1951, she spent two years at University College, London as an assistant to Ruth Glass, who was researching the post-war planning system.
[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.
[2] 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.
[4] Chesterton had Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life, and died from bronchopneumonia at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, London, on 18 August 2002.