[112] Design for the placement of iron railings for Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 17 June 1826

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Reference number

SM 54/5/7

Purpose

[112] Design for the placement of iron railings for Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, London, 17 June 1826

Aspect

Plan as SM 54/5/6 with the exception of: a pencil plan for the drainage pipes is included with the pipes emanating from the sides of the church and running along the outside and looping around the back, where each pipe is terminated behind their corresponding back projection in circular silos (night soil pits). The posts at each end of the pathway are now connected by railings, and not isolated, and the front pathway and carriage drive are divided by a granite curb. To the left-hand side are a couple of pencil sketches for an unknown subject

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design for the Iron railing &c. to enclose the Ground. No.2. / Trinity Church. Marylebone. / Carriage Road / Granite Curb 8” by 6” / Footposts. (3” York Paving laid in Courses.) / Portico. / Albany Street / (in pencil) to go 9 feet deep / Cement. / Footpath. / Carriage Road / Granite. Curb. / 3’ York Paving in courses. Average 5ft. width / Design for the Iron railing &c. to enclose the Ground. No.2. / Osnaburgh Street. and some measurements and calculations given

Signed and dated

17 June 1826
Lincolns Inn Fields / 17. June 1826.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, coloured washes of green, orange, pink and sand, within a double-rued border, and pricked for transfer on wove paper (738 x 530)

Hand

Probably Bailey, George (1792--1860), draughtsman
Soane Office Day Book for Saturday 17 June only records Bailey working on drawings for Marylebone Church, and letter types such as D, G and M correspond with Bailey’s hand

Watermark

SMITH&ALLNUTT / 1823

Notes

John thinks the unknown sketches may be a coffin lowering device similar to that of SM 54/4/29. If so, the design for the winch was devised two years before the final design for the winch, or it was added to this drawing in 1828.

Literature

John, 2003, p. 33, p. 34 fig. 18b

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