[10] Design for St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, June 1825

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  - London: Church of St John on Bethnal Green, London 1824-28 (66)
    - Designs for St John's, Bethnal Green, London, June 1825 [3]

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Reference number

SM 47/5/54

Purpose

[10] Design for St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, June 1825

Aspect

Ground plan of the nave of the church consisting of five-by-eight bays, showing the individual rooms, staircases, the arrangement and placement of the pews and free seats, reading desk and pulpit, and the communion table in the chancel. Some pencil additions to the rear of the church

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground Floor of a Design for a new Church to be erected in the Parish of St. Matthew. Bethnal Green. / No. 1./0 / Front extends / Staircase / Door / Vestibule / Staircase / Free Seat / Free Seat / Free Seat / Free Seats / Pews / Free Seats / Free Seats / Pulpit / Clerk. / Reading Desk. / Communion Table / Robing Room / Lobby / Water Closet. / Landing / Lobby. / Water Closet / Vestry Room and measurements and calculations given

Signed and dated

June 1825
Lincoln’s Inn Fields. / June. 1825

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, red pen, wash, coloured washes of brown, pink and yellow, pricked for transfer on wove paper (743 x 537)

Hand

Probably Soane Office, draughtsman
The Soane Office Day Books for May-June 1825 record Burchell and Davis as working on designs for St John's, Bethnal Green, and in June Richardson was added

Watermark

SMITH & ALLNUTT / 1823

Literature

Carr, 1976, Vol. II p. 425; Vol. III p. 885 fig. 257

Level

Drawing

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