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Model of a lantern light for Westminster Hall, London

Plaster

Height: 124cm
Width: 39cm
Depth: 57cm

Museum number: MP20

On display: Monk's Parlour
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

This lantern light, in an elegant Regency Gothic idiom, was made of cast iron and designed by J.W. Hiort. It was installed on the roof of Westminster Hall during its restoration in 1819-20, where it still remains in situ today. Although John Soane had been appointed in 1814 as an Attached Architect to the Office of Works with responsibility for Westminster and Whitehall he was only nominally in charge of these works - his opportunity to make his mark at Westminster came a little later with the opportunity to design new Law Courts next to Westminster Hall (for details of that project see drawings/Palace of Westminster).

Associated items

SM 37/1/10, related material


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