[5] Finished drawing for Mistley Church, c1776, as executed

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  - Mistley Church, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1776, as executed (11)
    - Design and finished drawing for Mistley Church, c1776, as executed (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 41/68

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for Mistley Church, c1776, as executed

Aspect

Section of a two-storey, three-bay building, with a hipped roof, and a domed ceiling supporting a conical oculus. The ceiling is ornamented with rosettes enclosed within octagonal compartments, flanked by arabesques. There is a central balcony ornamented with festoons, set behind an Ionic screen. This is flanked by semi-circular headed windows and Ionic pilasters. The central building is flanked by single-bay towers and Tuscan porticoes, all surmounted by domed belvederes, supporting weather vanes. The tower to the left contains a lunette, and is lit from above by a lightwell and oculus. The tower to the right forms the chancel and contains an altar surmounted by a frame, with a lunette window and domed ceiling above. The ceiling is ornamented with festoons and a band of enclosed flora, formed with rosettes and calyx, and this is separated by a figurative roundel

Scale

bar scale of 1 5/8 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through Mistley Church (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

c1776
c1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash, pink and Naples yellow washes on laid paper (436 x 298)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 23

Level

Drawing

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