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