Education
She studied with Leonard Manasseh at the Architectural Association in the late 1930s.
She studied with Leonard Manasseh at the Architectural Association in the late 1930s.
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 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 received her Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987.
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. English Heritage; Order of the British Empire.