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The elevation to the right-hand side of this shows a post in profile, with turned and fluted ornamented, attached into the stone base, and with a scrolling buttress to one side. The section in the middle of the sheet shows the top rail with the post running vertically behind on either side. Above, on the left side is an elevation of an iron attachment which runs between the posts at the level above and below the escutcheons. Above, in the top left-hand corner is the plan of a metal bar with circular ends and a circular opening cut into each which form the lower of the two top rails (marked B). The elevation to the right of these, shows a detail of the top of the rails with two cross bars marked B and A, with a funnel hood above surmounted by a ball. On the right edge of the sheet is an elevation showing part of the lower shaft of the posts which is attached to the bottom rail with a wrought iron pin. Above is a torus and scotia with a round cushion with a hole in the centre. This is attached by a fluted shaft to a torus with a cross rail to either side, surmounted by the remains of the shaft
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- 17 June 1826
17 June 1826
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Recorded in the Soane Office Day Books for the 15 and 16 June 1826 as working on the iron railings for Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone
Probably Mocatta, David Alfred (1806--1882), draughtsman
Recorded in the Soane Office Day Books for the 15th and 16th June 1826 as working on the iron railings for Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone
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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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