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Preliminary designs for unidentified domed buildings: a mausoleum? and churches
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Reference number
SM D3/14/25
Purpose
Preliminary designs for unidentified domed buildings: a mausoleum? and churches
Aspect
[3] Rough plan, part plan, sections and elevation for a church on a circular plan
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Verso
Rough plan, elevation, section, detail and interior perspective for a church on a Greek cross plan
Pen, hatching
The Greek cross plan has (internally) apsidal ends with an alcove between each arm; the circular nave is roofed by a dome supported on piers with engaged columns bearing sculptured angels and entrance is through a portico into a narthex. It is difficult to imagine a client for such a scheme, at once so Baroque and Roman (Catholic) and this was perhaps a jeu d'esprit.
The size of the building, medium and support do not suggest a connection with [SM D3/14/34] and [SM D3/14/32] or, indeed, with Soane's Bank Stock Office.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, hatching, with unrelated splodges of sepia and raw umber washes on laid paper (230 x 190)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
Willmot? (cut)
Notes
The recto shows a circular plan with four semicircular projections framed by columns and a single elliptical projection; presumably the chancel, framed by paired columns; the elevation shows a domed building with a lantern or oculus and lunette clerestory windows.
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