1/6 in to 1 ft

Section

• 1789

Pen, sepia, burnt sienna, yellow, pink and lavender washes, pencil within single ruled border on laid paper (505 x 335)

Dance

James (cut)

Dance's 1789 survey showed a church with an irregular plan consisting of a chancel and nave with a three-bay south aisle, two-bay north aisle - in which the patients of St Barholomew's Hospital sat - and a south-west tower. Dance proposed demolishing the chancel, removing the two piers between the nave and south aisle, enclosing the north aisle (which had been a chapel) to make a vestry, adding a gallery for the Hospital's patients at the west end over a new vestibule and, within the existing north and south walls, constructing a new nave (40 by 40 feet) on an octagonal plan with an altar recess framed by a multi-foiled arch and four corners, the two to the east with octagonal pulpits for the preacher and readers. The unexecuted seven-foiled arch may be related to Dance's new interest in Indian architecture. (For Dance's use of Indian architectural elements see the note on the Guildhall, London). The roof truss was designed with a raised tie-beam because of the vaulted ceiling and clerestory windows.

An engraved sectional view towards the east end recording the built interior, in the Archives of St Bartholomew's Hospital (X6/15), shows that the multi-foiled altar arc was not executed.

Drawing

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