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  • image SM 43/9/16
George Dance the Elder, London, church of St Martin Outwich, 1765. SM 43/9/16. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Ardon Bar-Hama

Reference number

SM 43/9/16

Purpose

Church of St Martin Outwich, Bishopgate Street and Camomile Street, City of London, 1765-6

Aspect

[1] Ground floor plan showing site boundary

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Plan of the Ground &c

Signed and dated

  • 1765-6

Medium and dimensions

Pen, light red, yellow and sepia washes on coarse laid paper (510 x 325)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

The difficulty of fitting a church with 48 box pews into a narrow and oddly shaped site is made evident by the plan.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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