[36/1/9] Copy of a design for the ground floor of the Stone Building

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- John Vardy (1717/18-65): Westminster, London: designs for the New Stone Building, c.1751 (12)

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Reference number

SM 36/1/9

Purpose

[36/1/9] Copy of a design for the ground floor of the Stone Building

Aspect

Lower Plan of Westminster Hall / and Offices adjoining

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

as above, labelled: S^t Margarets Lane, Exchequer Bill Office, Ordnance Office, Waiting / Room (twice), Old Palace Yard, Arcade, Footmens / Room, Yard (3 times), New Palace Yard, Westminster Hall, Vaults, Vault, Stables, Teller and Usher / of the Exchequer, Stables, Court, The Duke of Newcastle / Auditor of the Exchequer, Clerk of the / House of Commons, Garden (twice), Land Tax / Office, Tellers, Gardens, belongs to the Exchequer, A, B, C, Within the lines ABC on the lower / Story is the Auditor of Land Revenue / One P^r of Stairs is the Coffers & Lottery Offices / Two P^r the Coffers & Office Keepers Land Revenue, Garden, Stairs called the Kings Bridge, River Thames, (in a C20th hand, pencil) Case I (opposite E under Students Room) / Drawer 67 E 5 Sheets / D Inventory Page 161

Signed and dated

17 July 1822
Copied from a Plan at His Majesty's / Office of Works 17 July 1822

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper within single ruled border with one fold mark (597 x 846)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

J Whatman / 1820

Notes

Now the north pavilion of the new building projects further forward than the frontage of the old Exchequer Court.

Level

Drawing

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