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[103] Design for the drainage system at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1826
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Reference number
SM 54/5/5
Purpose
[103] Design for the drainage system at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 1826
Aspect
Plan of a church insulated within a wide strip of land, and a curved path along the front from one corner to the other. The plan shows the drainage pipe system with two sets of pipes emanating from the sides of the church. The pipes on the right-hand side terminate at ground level.The pipes on the left-hand side join another drain which loops around the back of the church, with two small drainage pipes joining it from the rear projection of the church, before terminating at ground level
Verso: Three pencil-drawn elevations. Two elevations are for unknown buildings. The third at the top of the sheet, and inverted at right angles shows steps leading to a portico of four Ionic columns supporting an architrave, with a large door in the centre. Above is a wide plinth supporting the square portion of a tower with a louvre and roundel, surmounted by a cylindrical portion with the architrave supported by encircling columns, and above is a small circular portion with two encircling columns surmounted by a pitched roof
Scale
to a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the Drains &c at Trinity Church. St. Marylebone_ / (in pencil) costed / 109 feet / 20.0 (Cir.) / 10 feet /10 feet / 89 ft. 6 in of Drain/ 20 ft / 20 ft / (in pencil) costed / 40_ South / 89.6 East / 20 / 7 / } [_ _ _] / [_ _ _] / executed some measurements and calculations given
Signed and dated
- 1826
1826.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, coloured washes of green, pink and sepia on wove paper (538 x 449)
Hand
Probably Soane Office, draughtsman
Notes
The drainage system with soil pits can also be discerned in faint pencil outline within SM 54/5/10.
Level
Drawing
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