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

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  - Lasswade Church, Midlothian: preliminary design and finished drawings for a church, 1791, unexecuted (6)
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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

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