[19] Working drawings for the bedchamber corridor and staircase, 18 July 1789

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  - Chillington Hall, Staffordshire: (executed) alterations and additions, (unexecuted) chapel, for Thomas Giffard, 1785-1790 (25)
    - Preliminary design for the Great Hall or saloon, working drawings for the entrance hall, dressing room and bedchamber corridor, 1788-9 (4)

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Reference number

SM 29/1/6 recto & verso

Purpose

[19] Working drawings for the bedchamber corridor and staircase, 18 July 1789

Aspect

Plan & Sections of Finishings to first floor Corridor and (verso) Plan & Sections of Finishings to Staircase at Chillington

Scale

bar scales of ¼ inch to 1 foot and (verso) 1/26 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Thomas Giffard Esq^r, (verso) labelled Plan of Staircase on the Bedchamber Floors, Arch / to / Corridor, Window, Arch / into Cove / Dressing Room, Arch / into Lobby, Door into / Library, Level of Attic floor, level of bedchamb^rfloor, level of Mezzanine floor, Ground floor

Signed and dated

18 July 1789
recto & verso Copy. Welbeck Street July 18^th1789

Medium and dimensions

pen, pricked for transfer on cartridge paper (517 x 635)

Hand

Pupil 1786-91 John McDonnell, draughtsman
John McDonnell (1770- , pupil 1786-91)

Notes

An entry in Soane's office 'Journal N^o 1' for 18 July 1789 reads: 'Per Shrewsbury Mail, on three Sheets of Cartridge No. 3 drawings of finishings to the back staircase, Corridor and Cove dressing room'. The corridor is distinguished by two canopy domes which though small may be the first of Soane's executed designs for this type of dome.

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