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Reference number

SM 64/5/38v

Purpose

[303] Alternative design, Court of King's Bench, 1824-25

Aspect

Plan and elevation of the inner east wall of the Court of King's Bench, showing variant proposals for the lower openings beneath the gallery; the entablature carried on two free-standing Greek Ionic columns (left) and the entablature carried on two antae with a chanelled pier in between (right), neither as executed

Scale

line scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1824-25
    dated in accordance with known building campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of burnt umber and sepia, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (410 x 583)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

As finally completed, the lower openings were square headed and the rectangular openings of the upper walls omitted in favour of a solid wall plane (see P281).

Literature

Sawyer, 1999: p 636 - 637, footnote 1889

Level

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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