SM Adam volume 31/2

[16] Finished drawing for alterations to the west front of the quadrangle, 1784, unexecuted

Elevation of a three-storey, twenty-one-bay building with a balustraded, hipped roof supporting a belvedere and rustication at the ground-storey level. The central three bays are projecting and form a triumphal arch, with a central, double-height, semi-circular-headed entrance set within a pedimented Tuscan portico. The portico has a frieze of fluting and rosettes and there are trophies set within the tympanum, with the pediment surmounted by reclining, draped figures. Behind this there is a Diocletian window flanked by festoons, and all this is flanked by raised, paired Corinthian columns. Above this there is a pedestal ornamented with figurative roundels flanked by truncated pilasters, with ram mask capitals and there is a frieze of anthemia and calyx. The pedestal is surmounted by statuary and the belvedere which contains a pedimented clock and oculi windows. The belvedere is ornamented with a band of swags and a frieze of Vitruvian scroll. At the ground-storey level the building has three-quarter-height windows and the building has stepped entrances in the third, eighth, fourteenth and nineteenth bays. At the first-storey level there are full-height windows, with a string course of guilloche and half-height windows in the upper register. Above this there is a frieze of fret. The building terminates in three-storey, three-bay, pedimented pavilions surmounted by statuary. The pavilions have raised Corinthian pilasters, friezes of fluting and rosettes, and rosettes flanked by foliage and feathers set within the tympana