SM Adam volume 38/16

[2] Finished drawing for a hospital and chapel, c1759, unexecuted

Elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay building surmounted by a stepped dome with an oculus. The central five bays form a stepped, pedimented Corinthian portico, which contains a central entrance flanked by further entrances. Above this there are plain roundels, and the flanking bays contain niches with plain tablets set above, and the portico has a frieze of rosettes and festoons. The portico is flanked by aedicule windows supported by Corinthian columns with bases ornamented with rosettes and festoons. Above this there are blank tablets and a frieze of rosettes and ox skulls linked by festoons. The central bays are flanked by one-and-a-half-storey, six-bay, curved link blocks, with stepped entrances in the third bays. Beyond the link blocks there are two-and-a-half-storey, nine-bay buildings with balustraded, hipped roofs. The central three bays form a pedimented Doric portico, with a central stepped, semi-circular-headed entrance at the ground-storey level. The entrance is flanked by semi-circular-headed windows, and at the first-storey level there are balustraded windows, with blank tablets set above. There are string courses between the ground-storey and first-storey levels, and the first and ninth bays of the building are projecting and contain semi-circular-headed windows at the first-storey level