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[18] Design for the ground storey of the library, 1788, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 31/15
Purpose
[18] Design for the ground storey of the library, 1788, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of the ground storey of an eleven-by-eleven-bay building, with a stepped portico entrance in the principal front. Beyond there is a rectangular hall flanked by apsidal-ended porters’ rooms. The hall links to a circular staircase set within an octagonal block, which also contains closets and water closets. The central octagonal compartment is flanked by single-bay links, which connect to the surrounding wings. The flanking wings contain colonnaded schools and a printing office, and to the rear there are rooms for books. At the rear of the building there is a central stepped entrance and the right and left-hand fronts contain single-bay link blocks. The left-hand link block connects to a nine-bay building with a central stepped entrance flanked by pilasters. Within there is a central, circular hall with apses and columnar screen entrances. To the rear of the hall there are paired, curved staircases and the hall is flanked by register offices and rooms for librarians. The right-hand link-bay connects to the Senate House
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design of the Ground Story of a new Library Register & Consistory for the University of Cambridge with Hall School Printing Office Librarians rooms / & shewing the present Senate House which is proposed to make a part of the new Design / New Register office / Anti room / New Register Office / Staircase / Hall / Anti room / Librarians room / New Consistory / Printing Office (underwritten in pencil) / Ware room for Books / Books (pencil) / Room for [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] / School / School / Porters room / Hall / Porters room / Senate House / Kings College Chapel (pencil) / No. 25 (pencil) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- September 1788
Sep.tr 1788- / A copy of this given to Mr. Stevenson / 28.t May 1789-
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (942 x 622)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison
Verso
5 / 5 / inscription cropped
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, pp. 173-79; Index, p. 6
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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