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[13] Finished drawing for the ground floor of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, November 1820
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Reference number
SM 54/1/8
Purpose
[13] Finished drawing for the ground floor of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, November 1820
Aspect
Plan of a church of five by nine bays. On the entrance front, the central three bays are recessed behind a colonnade of four columns. The central two columns are paired, and with a second colonnade behind with a design of recessed panels to reflect the compartmental ceiling. The columns are flanked by two towers containing D-shaped internal staircases. The interior is divided into a nave and two side aisles articulated by free standing columns, and containing pews, with two sets of poor benches down the centre. At the end of the nave are the pulpit and reading desk. At the rear of the chancel is the altar. Beyond is the rear entrance accessed by external steps and flanked by towers containing the vestry and robing room. To the left-hand side of the entrance is a faded pencil design for what may be an arch
Scale
bar scale of 23/10 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for a Church to be erected in the Parish of St. Marylebone / Design. No. 1. / Front Extends / Front Extends / Staircase to Gallery &c / The Principal Entrance / Staircase to Gallery &c / Clerks Desk / Reading Desk / Pulpit / Communion Table / The Eastern Entrance. / Vestry Room. / Robing Room some measurements given
Signed and dated
- November 1820
Lincoln’s Inn Fields / November. 1820.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, red pen, wash, coloured washes of pink and yellow within a triple ruled border, and pricked for transfer on wove paper (949 x 614)
Hand
Soane Office
Drawing signed off by John Soane
Drawing signed off by John Soane
Watermark
J WHATMAN / 1820
Level
Drawing
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