[8] Design for a gateway and lodges, 1799

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  - Bagshot Park, Surrey: survey drawings and designs for entrance with lodges for H.M. Woods and Forests, 1798-9 (8)

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SM P134

Purpose

[8] Design for a gateway and lodges, 1799

Aspect

Perspective by J.M.Gandy

Inscribed

An Entrance to a Park

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes, framed drawing, hung in the Picture Room

Hand

Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

Notes

Exhibited at the Royal Academy, No.1013, 1799 under the title 'The entrance into Bagshot Park, a seat of H.R.H. Prince William of Gloucester'. The entrance is in three parts, that is, a single storey lodge with pavilion roof on either side of a taller archway. The lodges have a single segmental-headed window (on the road front) with multi-paned glass. As shown in the detail drawings ([6-7]) there is a striking use of brick with knapped flint so that there are flint pilasters and flint is used in the gaps between the brick toothing. The arch is crowned by a stone coat-of-arms and two antefixes.
Soane was to use brick and knapped flint for the (now demolished) dairy at Betchworth Castle, Surrey, the (now demollished) Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park and most notably for the entrance to his own house at Ealing, that is, Pitzhanger Manor (q.v.).

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Drawing

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