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The section at the bottom shows the vault, nave and side aisles looking towards the principal (western entrance). The nave and gallery aisles on both sides are divided by a landing and panelled doors with console-hood mouldings are at each end. Pews are arranged in the bottom aisle running into the central nave, and at gallery level they are descending to the front of the gallery. An arch is above each aisle at ceiling level. The nave has an arch with oculi at gallery level, and a large panelled double door is in the centre with Free Seats in front. Above is the balustraded organ gallery with pairs of iron posts supporting the balustraded children's gallery. Above is a pitched roof, and behind is the base of a tower
The section above shows the vault, nave, and aisle lookng towards the eastern altar end of a church, with an identical arrangement of pews and Free Seats, doors and arches as the section beneath, but behind the central arch is the altarpiece with three arch-topped windows placed above in the rear wall. Above is a pitched roof and behind is part of a plinth
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- January 25th 1826
J[an]y. 25th 1826.
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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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