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[52] Design for the principal front of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1824
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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
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
Port, 2006, p. 75, fig. 38, p. 77
Level
Drawing
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