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[67] Design for the interior of the Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, January 1825
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Reference number
SM 54/2/6
Purpose
[67] Design for the interior of the Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, January 1825
Aspect
Axial section of a nine-bay church. The front porch with Ionic columns and the ninth bay with a door, arch-topped windows and steps, are all in elevation. The section shows the various tiers of the tower with the disengaged columns and the dome and weather vane are included as a flyer and to the right is the nave with iron posts supporting the organ gallery. Box pews extend across the lenghth of the nave and a pulpit is shown at the end of the nave and in the chancel is a column in profile for the altarpiece. The gallery has an arcade of arches supported by Doric columns at nave leve with pews. The windows are square at nave level and arch-topped at gallery level all latticed. Above is a long, low roof
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet
Inscribed
7 – No.6. / Section of a Church to be erected in the Eastern Division of the Parish of St. Marylebone. / Organ measurements given
Signed and dated
- January 1825
Lincolns Inn Fields. / January. 1825.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of blue, Payne’s grey, olive green, orange, pink, red and stone, and pricked for transfer on wove paper (735 x 530)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1824
Notes
This early 1825 section is notable for the change in tower design. here Soane is positing an earlier, grander tower withcolumns around te first tier supporting their own individual entablature. This would go on to be the finished design for the tower.
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Drawing
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