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Verso: Elevation in pencil of the principal front for a church showing steps leading to a portico of four Doric columns. The bottom half of the walls are dressed in banded masonry, the upper half plain. Recessed between the centre intercolumniation is a door. The end bays have windows with console hood mouldings and with relief tablets above. At the sides Doric columns support part of a projecting architrave. All the columns support a Doric frieze. Above is a wide base which is divided by four recessed pilasters. Between the pilasters there is a clock face in the centre and two relief tablets. Above each pilaster is a standing statue of a human figure. Recessed between the central figures is a tower with a pendentive dome with a louvre window within, and it is supported by Ionic columns. Above is a square base surmounted by standing figures
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- September 1820
[_ _] Sept. 1820
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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