The books use capitals and italics to highlight Sites, Types and Names: two small sections of a recent volume are shown to demonstrate the process of converting text to database.

The following is an excerpt from one of the books:

ST MICHAEL (University Church), S of the Hall on Ring Road West, not in the village. Limestone and Brickhill ironstone. Perp W tower and porch, and Dec nave and chancel. Restoration 1860 by William White. – ROOFS . Nave: tie-beam of late medieval form but the details indicate it is of c1600. – MONUMENTS. Bartholomew Beale †1660 and wife (chancel N). Commissioned from Thomas Burman in 1672 by Mary Beale, the painter. She and her husband, son of Bartholomew, paid £45 for it. Two busts in oval medallions, excellent portraits. A black pilaster between. Black columns l. and r. carrying an open segmental pediment. – Sir Thomas Pinfold (nave S). He died in 1701, but the monument is signed by Nollekens and must have been made about 1780. Oval medallion with bust against an obelisk. Books at the foot of the obelisk.

(Buckinghamshire [1994], p560, Milton Keynes, Walton Hall, database material in bold)

Site: St Michael (University Church); Address: Ring Road West, Open University; Place: Milton Keynes, Walton Hall
 
Church of England churches or chapels
Decorated (c1250-1360): nave/chancel
Perpendicular (c1330-1550): W tower/porch
Elizabethan/Jacobean (c1550-1630): nave tie-beam roof (c1600)
1830-1910: restoration (1860) (William White)
 
Monuments (other than brasses)
17th Century: Bartholomew Beale (+1660, monument 1672) and wife Mary (Thomas Burman)
1701-1830: Sir Thomas Pinfold (+1701, monument c1780) (Nollekens)
 
Architect (restoration)
White, William, 1860 
 
Benefactor/founder
Beale, Mary, 1672, commissioning by painter of monument to husband and herself/
 Thomas Burman
 
Sculptor
Burman, Thomas, 1672, Beale monument (+1660)
Nollekens, Joseph, 1780(c), Pinfold monument (+1701)
 
Subject of monument
Beale, Bartholomew, and wife Mary, 1660(+),Thomas Burman (1672)
Pinfold, Thomas, Sir, 1701(+),Nollekens (c1780)


(Database records as input, see Figs. 1-2 for retrieval and display)

Fig 1 Site Survey for St Michael (University Church), Ring Road West, Open University, Milton Keynes, Walton Hall, Buckinghamshire

(Database records as retrieved and displayed: Site Survey in upper section)

Fig 2 Name records for St Michael (University Church), Ring Road West, Open University, Milton Keynes, Walton Hall, Buckinghamshire (highlighted)

A second example from one of the books:

THE VACHE, to the NE in Vache Lane, is a courtyard house with ranges of apparently four different dates: S end of the E range and the W range early C16, extended N in the later C16 (perhaps by the Fleetwoods c1560); N range late C17; S range C18 (the Pallisers bought the house in 1771). However, the general impression is late C19, when the windows were renewed and the courtyard infilled with a galleried hall. W additions 1955. The main C18 S FRONT has Venetian windows in the end bays with pedimental gables. Pedimented doorcase. On the projecting end bays of the N FRONT open-pedimented gables, mullioned bay windows and some C17 brick. Central gabled porch. Inside at the W end a C17 staircase up to the attic. Timber-framing on the E front and a large mostly C16 stack originally to the hall, which was in this range. Inside it a C16 roof, crown-post at the earlier S end, kingpost at the later N end; two C17 stone fireplaces. W FRONT with C16 brick including traces of merlons etc. on the heightened central projection. C16 roof with curved struts and chamfered arched wind-braces. – Opposite the back, a little distance away, the MONUMENT to Captain Cook, erected by his friend Admiral Hugh Palliser in the late C18. Two-storey flint and red brick tower, shortened in 1964. Arch on each side and inside a globe on a pedestal with a eulogium to Cook.

(Buckinghamshire [1994], p217, Chalfont St Giles, database material in bold)

Site: The Vache; Address: Vache Lane; Place: Chalfont St Giles
 
Domestic buildings (houses)
16th Century: S end of E and W ranges (early C16)
Elizabethan/Jacobean (c1550-1630): N extension of E and W ranges (?c1560)
17th Century: N range (late C17)
1701-1830: S range (?late C18)
1830-1910: renewal of windows/courtyard infilling with hall (all late C19)
Post 1910: W additions (1955)
 
Decorations or fittings
17th Century: E range, two fireplaces
17th Century: staircase
Park, garden or estate buildings
1701-1830: Captain James Cook, tower (late C18)
Post 1910: shortening of Cook tower (1964)
Constructional methods/unusual materials
16th Century: W front, early brick (early C16)
16th Century: E range, crown-post roof
16th Century: E range, kingpost roof
 
Owner/resident
Fleetwood, 1560(c)  
Palliser, 1771 (from)  
Palliser, Hugh, Admiral Sir, (late C18)
 
Subject of monument
Cook, James, Capt, 1779(+), tower (late C18)
 

(Database records as input, see Figs. 3-4 for retrieval and display)

Fig 3 Site Survey for The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire

(Database records as retrieved and displayed: Site Survey in upper section)

Fig 4 Name records for The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire (highlighted)