P. B. Chatwin

His writings are often still listed as recommended reading, for example, a number of his articles, including 'The Decoration of the Beauchamp Chapel, Warwick, with special reference to the sculptures' in Archaeologia, LXXVI, 1928, are included on the ‘Gothic Reading List’ of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London[19] and, not unsurprisingly, reflecting his love of his home county, works by him are on the recommended reading list for Warwick University’s History of Art course, Special Studies in Historic Architecture.

[20] Apart from his research findings which continue to be cited (see footnotes below for examples),[21][22] Chatwin’s legacy is remembered in other ways; photographs and plans are held by Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service,[23] Warwickshire County Record Office[24] and The Library of Birmingham[25][26] and working papers of the scholar Gordon McNeil Rushforth, held in the University of Exeter archives, include correspondence with Chatwin.

[27] Photographs attributed to Chatwin, including images of the interior of Beauchamp Chapel, St Mary’s Church, Warwick which he researched and wrote about extensively, are held by the Conway Library, whose archive, of primarily architectural images, is in the process of being digitised under the wider Courtauld Connects project.

[28] Chatwin also made gifts and donations to local institutes, for example, medieval floor tiles from Maxstoke Castle are held by Warwick Museum[29] and a watercolour of a stained glass window design for St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham was gifted to Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery.

[30] In 1906, Chatwin married Cecily Frances (1882-1968), daughter of chartered surveyor and land agent Robert Edward Couchman, of Birmingham, of a gentry family of Solihull They had no children.