[52] Design for the principal front of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, designs for construction and interiors, 1820-34 (120)
    - Designs and finished drawings for a Neo-Gothic scheme for Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, May 1824 (4)

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Reference number

SM 54/2/16

Purpose

[52] Design for the principal front of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1824

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (west) front of a five-bay church in the Neo-Gothic style.

There is a tri-portal entrance consisting of pointed Gothic arches with hood moulding and crockets. The end bay arch-topped windows are divided into lights. Across the front are buttresses with bulb finials, and across the top are square crenellations. The tower has a square base with square-topped crenellations, the first tier is tall with supporting flying buttresses, a lucarne and clock-face are on the front. The second tier has butresses and square-topped crenellations, the third tier is cylindrical and this is topped by a small dome with a finial surmounted by a cross

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Design for a Church to be erected in the Eastern Division of the Parish of St. Marylebone. -

Signed and dated

1824
1824.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of brown, Payne’s grey and orange, and pricked for transfer on wove paper (742 x 539)

Hand

Richardson, Charles James (1806--1871), draughtsman
Charles James Richardson signed the other two drawings in the series SM 54/2/17 and SM 54/2/18 and the writing is consistent with his, especially the D, and looped C and H

Literature

Carr, 1976, vol. II, p. 395-396; vol. III, p. 859 fig. 206
Port, 2006, p. 75, fig. 38, p. 77

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