Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Churches (7)
  - Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765. Preliminary designs, contract and working drawings (9)

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Reference number

SM volume 19/18

Purpose

Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

Aspect

[2] Plan of the Vaults

Scale

A Scale of feet (1/7 in to 1 ft)

Inscribed

Inscribed: as above and some dimensions given Signed: This Plan was produc'd by George / Dance Jun^r at a meeting of the Trustees for re- / building the Church of Allhallows [sic] on the / Wall London the 8^th day of May 1765 / and approv'd by the Trustees then present / Rich^d Muilman / Chairman and 23^rdMay 1765 / Exhibited to me James Taylor Dated 8th May 1765 (as above) and 23rd May 1765

Signed and dated

1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil, hatching, within doubled ruled border on laid paper (455 x 660)

Hand

Dance, George Dance the Elder

Watermark

fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and VDL below and IV

Notes

Dance may have had help from his father in making this and the following drawing; the titles and scales seem to be in the elder Dance's hand.

The cross-vaulted ceiling is shown and also, unusually for a small building, the east/west internal wall that was needed to stiffen a structure built on poor ground. The main body of the church is 85 feet 8 inches long, excluding the east apse and west tower, and 33 feet wide. Pencil hatching blocks in the eastern window.

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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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