Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Preliminary designs for unidentified domed buildings: a mausoleum? and churches
  • image Image 1 for SM D3/14/34
  • image Image 2 for SM D3/14/34
  • image Image 1 for SM D3/14/34
  • image Image 2 for SM D3/14/34

Reference number

SM D3/14/34

Purpose

Preliminary designs for unidentified domed buildings: a mausoleum? and churches

Aspect

[1] Rough plan and cross-section of a rectangular building (or room) with a domed centre with fan shell decoration between narrow, probably barrel-vaulted, compartments at either end

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Verso Rough plan and longitudinal section Pencil The plan has a domed centre within a three-lobed compartment approached by an octagonal outer narthex and unequal six-sided inner narthex. The section shows, for example, a horseshoe-shaped arch.

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil, hatching on laid secretary paper (320 x 200, half of a sheet, see [SM D3/14/32] no fold marks)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

Britannia with a spear, shield and olive branch in crowned roundel and a bell below, and part of W

Notes

The design calls to mind the Common Council Chamber at the Guildhall (built 1777) and must be a re-use of that earlier plan.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk