[4] Finished design for a church, 1791, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Lasswade Church, Midlothian: preliminary design and finished drawings for a church, 1791, unexecuted (6)
    - Designs for a church, 1791, unexecuted (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/80

Purpose

[4] Finished design for a church, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Front elevation of a two-storey church with a central steeple. The central bay is set within a relieving arch and framed by piers and a pediment. The flanking bays are stepped back with narrow windows and the outer bays are also stepped back with ground-floor niches and first-floor decorative panels. There is a continuous cornice above ground and first floors

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Front of a new design for the Church of Laswade (in the hand of William Adam) / (verso) No 2

Signed and dated

1791
Rob^t Adam Archi^t 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (446x311)

Hand

Adam, Robert (1728--1792)
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p.21
King, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 381, 394
King, Volume 2, 2001, p.18
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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