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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - 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 33/81

Purpose

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

Aspect

Longitudinal section through a two-storey church showing a central domed space flanked by wings with tiered ground and first floors and a belfry at one end. The central space contains an upper gallery supported by Doric columns. There is a pulpit on one side and an opening to stairs on the other. The coloured washes denote the building materials

Scale

bar scale of ¾ of an inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section through the Church of Laswade (in the hand of William Adam) / (verso) Shadowed Drawings of Laswade Church

Signed and dated

1791
Rob^t Adam Architect 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including lemon yellow and pink within a ruled border on laid paper (445x304)

Hand

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

Watermark

Portal & Co

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

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

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