[357] Final design, New Law Courts, late 1823

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Northern Range - Court of King's Bench, 1823-29 (207)
        Giant Order Scheme, 1823-26 (17)
        Design and Working Drawings, 1823-24 (7)

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Reference number

SM 53/1/24

Purpose

[357] Final design, New Law Courts, late 1823 - 1824

Aspect

Plan of the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, showing the area from the central block of The Stone Building to New Palace Yard, with the Court of King's Bench shown with furnishings, and with a façade to New Palace Yard treated curved corners between set-back buttresses, and the ceilings of the adjoining anciliary rooms and passageway shown (in dashed line), not as executed

Scale

bar scale of ³/₈ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for part of the New Law Courts at Westminster. - / WESTMINSTER HALL. / THE BAIL COURT.

Signed and dated

1824
1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, pen, on wove paper (659 x 558)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Notes

In the drawing existing walls are shown in dark wash, whereas proposed walls are shown in a lighter tint. The light trenches along the New Law Court's north-western perimeter on St Margaret's Street have been erased and redrawn.

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Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation. This catalogue of Soane’s designs for the New Law Courts was generously funded by The Worshipful Company of Mercers and The Pilgrim Trust.

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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