[25] Stage V (final stage): parapet wall made more elaborate, 8 and 12 March 1816

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Monuments and mausolea
  - London: St Giles in the Fields burial ground (now St Pancras Gardens), Camden: Soane monument [the 'Soane Tomb'], 1816, 1828 (47)

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Reference number

SM 63/7/30

Purpose

[25] Stage V (final stage): parapet wall made more elaborate, 8 and 12 March 1816

Aspect

West elevation showing a revised treatment of the dice (see Notes below for definition) that now have a recess with an urn below a blocking course (with a panel for an armorial shield) that supports a double scroll. A T-shaped ornament and another based on the form of a Roman roof tile (drawn in pencil) have been added to the coping. Variant freehand (pencil) details to a large scale of reversed tile ornament and of T-ornament now in the form of a cross with extended arms have been added (right-hand side). The entrance has been cancelled with a scribbled line

Scale

bar scale of 1/9 inch to one foot

Inscribed

weather and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

12 March 1816

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, warm sepia and sepia washes, pencil and brown ink additions on laid paper (536 x 747)

Hand

Soane

Watermark

Phipps & Son 1809

Notes

The office Day Book has an entry for 8 March: 'Drawing Birds eye view of Monument and making alterations to elevation of d[itt]o' signed by Basevi, 'Drawing a birds eye View of a design for a Monument' signed by Parke. On 12 March, Basevi was 'Drawing Birds eye view of Monument' and Parke was 'Making a View of a Mausoleum'. However, the drawings catalogued above are both by Soane.

Some novel ornament has been introduced. The recess of the die (the middle part of a pedestal between the base and surbase, plural, dice) is framed at the top by a double-T motif, in execution having lightly chiselled rustication. The stylized Roman tile motif is also found on the chimney-piece of the Monk's Parlour in Soane's home at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1824. A ready-made element were the balusters, 34 of which were supplied in March-April 1816 by Mrs Eleanor Coade's 'Ornamental Stone Manufactory / Lambeth' at six shillings and sixpence each that with cartage of four shillings came to £11.9.0. (Bills, 16/17/2)

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Drawing

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