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Preliminary designs for unidentified domed buildings: a mausoleum? and churches
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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
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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