[203] Survey with preliminary design, Court of Chancery, 19 October 1822

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Reference number

SM 71/2/62v

Purpose

[203] Survey with preliminary design, Court of Chancery, 19 October 1822

Aspect

Section through the area to be occupied by the Court of Chancery, from Westminster Hall to the rear of The Stone Building, as extant, with preliminary designs for the Court of Chancery and Public Corridor, as executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₅ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Floor of Stone Buil[din]^g. / Court of Chancery. / Floor of West[minste]:^r Hall. / Scale of Feet. dimensions given

Signed and dated

19/10/1822
19^th. Oct[obe]^r. / 1822.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, pink wash, pen, on wove paper (375 x 506)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

This drawing evidently began as a survey drawing, recording the restrictions incumbent upon the available site (compare with SM 37/1/8). It has subsequently been used to explore the parameters within which the Public Corridor and the north wall of the Court of Chancery could be positioned, and the centring of the core walls' arches in relation to the existing buttress pier and its arch.

Literature

Sawyer, 1999: p 531, footnote 1567

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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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