[5] Design for a church, c.1793, executed to a variant design

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/20

Purpose

[5] Design for a church, c.1793, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Plan of a church with shops to the front. Three sides of the church have wide apses with canted external walls that merge with protruding staircases. The shops adjoining the central apse to the front of the church and comprise four shop spaces with two staircases each. The plan also shows the footprint of the existing steeple and shops on Trongate

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the ground Story of a Church proposed to be built on the Scite[sic] of the Old Church in Trongate Street Glasgow / The Church may be built imeadiately[sic] but the parts tinted Grey and Red beiⁿgn two different designs ^ ^{for Shops} in front give the / alter^ⁿative of either removing the Buildings and Steple[sic] towards the Street or of retaining them as they non Stand / Pulpit / Church / Staircase / Lobby / Hall / Lobby / Staircase / Area / Pulpit / passage / Stairs / Back Shop / Back Shop / Front Shop / Front Shop / Lobby / Front Shop / Front Shop / Back Shop / Back Shop / Staircase / Area / Door / line of Street / The Old Steple[sic] / Shops fronting the Trongate / (in pencil) a faire copy of this [_ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] / (verso) Part Office / (in pencil) J Stuart Sheemess

Signed and dated

c.1793
datable to c.1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (377x539)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam or John Robertson

Watermark

W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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