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The perspective shows a four-bay, four storeys with attic building. The ground floor windows and door are round arched, the windows above flat-headed with voussoirs, and there are giant pilasters at each front corner. The site measures 37 feet across and approximately 82 feet from front to back on the side of the river. In front of the building is a small, domed toll booth with a bow window, in use as a shop. A map of Bristol (SM 57a/3/3) shows the premises to have been on the south side of the river, on the site of what is now One Victoria Street.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Survey drawings of Messrs Pitt, Powell and Fripps' premises, Bridge Parade (5)
- Survey drawing of the basement
- Survey drawing of the ground floor
- Survey drawing of the one pair floor
- Survey drawing of the two pair floor
- Survey drawing of perspective view