SM Adam volume 40/71

[20] Unfinished design for the music room, 1773, as executed with minor alterations

Plan and laid-out wall-elevations of an apsidal ended music room, with a three-bay bow window at one end. The window is flanked by ornamental panels supporting four branch candelabra in the form of lyres. The panels are embellished with calyx, arabesques supporting urns, and medallions. The elevation to the left contains a central organ, with a cabinet ornamented with panels containing rosette roundels, and bordered with Vitruvian scroll. Above this there is a band of fluting and the pipes of the organ are set within a circular, draped frame. At the base of the frame there is a crest flanked by putti and pedestals supporting draped figures bearing instruments. The organ has a frieze of rosette roundels, with a central medallion, and it is surmounted by a reclining figure. The organ is flanked by ornamental panels supporting four branch candelabra in the form of lyres, and doorways with portrait overdoors. The right-hand elevation contains a central chimneypiece with an overmantel mirror frame flanked by candelabra, and all this is as SM Adam volume 20/132. The chimneypiece is flanked by figurative panels