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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

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