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