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Reference number

SM (25) volume 73/48

Purpose

Design for the recess north of the Vestibule

Aspect

25 Section looking north, showing the north recess of the Doric Vestibule and part of the adjacent Accountant's Office

Scale

bar scale

Signed and dated

  • datable to mid April 1803

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 25 shows a design corresponding with drawings 23 to 24. The relatively wide antae framing the door, and the flanking semicircular alcoves, are shown in plan on drawings 22 and 23. A small closet and arched doorway shown on the left of drawing 25 provided access to the windlass for opening the iron door of the Princes Street entrance. The section shows a one-storey building and a similarly short screen wall. In the executed design, the corridor led to a four-storey building.

Level

Drawing

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