[79] Design for the principal front at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, copied December 1825

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Reference number

SM 54/4/4

Purpose

[79] Design for the principal front at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, copied December 1825

Aspect

Elevation of the western side of a church of five bays. There is a porch supported by four Ionic columns with double doors between the intercolumniations and windows above the two doors flanking the main central door. The end bays have square-topped windows at nave level and arch-topped windows at gallery level. On the roof is a short balustrade and behind is the tower consisting of: a base with a arch-topped window, a tall second tier with louvre and clockface, a frieze of fret, and Corinthian pilasters. The top has Soane caps and pinecone finials. The next tier is cylindrical with a shuttered lancet window and supported by engaged Corinthian columns. Above is a dome with a finial and this is surmounted by a weather vane

Scale

bar scale 1 inch to five feet

Inscribed

Copy-to be returned / No..4 ²⁵ / 5” York cap stone / Inverted Arch / 5” York / Elevation of the West. Front. / Portland / average Bed 9” / York Steps / 6” Bed / The Ground Line / Bath Stone 9” ½ Bd / Portland Stone / 6” Bed / 15”Bed / Bath Stone / Portland Stone. / 10” Bed / Bath Stone / See Drawing at large No. 8. / (in pencil) Steeple (see larger / Drawing) some measurements and calculations given

Signed and dated

December 1825
L.I.F. Decr. 1825

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of blue, Payne’s grey, olive green, stone and yellow, on wove paper (746 x 542)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

foxing

Level

Drawing

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