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Reference number

SM 54/3/4

Purpose

[7] Design for the exterior of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 11 September 1820

Aspect

Perspective of a five-by-nine-bay church within a landscape, with the bottom half composed of banded masonry and the upper half plain with sculpture panels at the end and first bays. The windows at nave level are rectangular and at gallery level are square. The front columns are Doric and there are two porched side entrances at the second and eighth bays with volute pediments. The tower consists of a high cross base with a clock, sculpture panels and volute pediments. The tower has a round drum, with a cylindrical tier above supported by engaged Ionic columns with lancet windows, a short dome is above surmounted by figurative sculpture.

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sketch for a design for a church to be erected in the Parish of St. Marylebone.

Signed and dated

  • 11 September 1820
    11 Sept 1820

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes of light blue, brown, green, olive green, Payne’s grey, sepia, stone, and yellow on wove paper (509 x 361)

Hand

Probably Soane Office, draughtsman

Verso

faint pencil outline of an arch or arch-headed window

Level

Drawing

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