[2] Design for the interior of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1820

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Reference number

SM 54/3/13

Purpose

[2] Design for the interior of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1820

Aspect

Perspective of the interior of a church. The central nave is framed by an arcade of arches with a landing separating the nave from the gallery level, and a balustrade runs between each arch. At nave and gallery level are windows. The vaulted ceiling is compartmentalised. The coffers have diamond-shaped recessed compartments, with one at each end being a window. At the far end of the nave is a wall with a recessed panel, and above is a set of three latticed windows, separated by two engaged Corinthian columns. Beside the windows are niches with the vague outlines of statues within. Some pencil emendations show a potential arch between the nave and the chancel

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sketch for a design for the Interior of a Church proposed to be erected on the Parish of St. Marylebone

Signed and dated

1820
1820.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of cerulean blue, brown and stone, on wove paper (491 x 361)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

This design differs from SM 54/2/8 in having a flatter, compartmentalised ceiling, suggesting a lower clerestory level. The windows are aligned flatter along the edges of the roof line, which Carr believes would have caused constructional problems at this scale. However, this feature means the light enters the Church using more of a top-down lighting effect rather than the oblique light seen in the earlier drawing. Large windows on the left-hand side remain, and three flat windows on the rear wall suggested to Carr that Soane was still experimenting with potential lighting effects. Soane was still thinking about separating the nave and chancel with an arch (as he did in SM 54/2/8), but it is only suggested on this version.

Literature

Carr, 1976, vol. I, pp. 344-345

Level

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