[63] Design for the interior of St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, 1826-7

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Reference number

SM 47/5/64

Purpose

[63] Design for the interior of St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, 1826-7

Aspect

Ground plan of the church of five-by-nine bays with rounded entrance stairs, showing the arrangement of the pews and free seats, reading desk and pulpit in the nave and altarpiece in the chancel, internal staircases on the front end bays, and an external rear staircase between the rear projections

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 5 feet

Inscribed

Bethnal Green Chapel. / Plan, shewing the Pews and Free Seats. The pews are numbered 1-90. To the left side in faded pencil are the list of 90 numbered pews with the numbers that can sit on each

Signed and dated

1826-7
The round-stepped entrance indicates this is a later design which started in 1826 (SM 47/5/3) and so should date to this period

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of brown, orange, pink and yellow, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (726 x 529)

Watermark

SMITH & ALLNUTT / 1823

Level

Drawing

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