[5] Finished drawing for a church showing a ground plan, c1772-81, unexecuted

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [5] Finished drawing for a church showing a ground plan, c1772-81, unexecuted

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Cromarty Parish Church, Ross and Cromarty, Highlands: designs for a church and a house for George Ross, unexecuted, 1772-81 (11)
    - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for a church, 1772-81, unexecuted (10)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 45/48

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a church showing a ground plan, c1772-81, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of a church, with an octagonal nave containing pews facing the octagonal pulpit on the north side, and with a screened apse to east and west, behind each of which is a lobby with two apses and a staircase to the gallery above, and with external stairs to east and west

Scale

bar scale of 2 ¼ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of a Parish Church for George Ross Esqr. Near Cromarty shewing the disposition of the / Pews & place of the Pulpit &c also of the Porches & stairs up to the Niches above (verso) 5

Signed and dated

1772-81
date range: 1772-1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (354 x 534)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 66
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk