Blackwell Hall site, Guildhall Yard, City of London, c.1806

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Some work in the City of London (11)
  - Blackwell Hall site, Guildhall Yard, City of London, c.1806 (2). Copies of a preliminary design (unexecuted) for the London Institution on the site of Blackwell Hall

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Reference number

SM D3/13/13

Purpose

Blackwell Hall site, Guildhall Yard, City of London, c.1806

Aspect

[1] Ground floor plan

Scale

1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Ground Floor / of a / Design for a Literary and Scientific Institution / on the site of Blackwell Hall, No.2, labelled including Guildhall Yard, Basinghall Street, Hall (twice), Clerks Parlor, Clerks Office, Committee Room, Reading / Room, Open Court, Room for Lamps / Oil &ca, Laboratory, Small / Lecture / Room and dimensions given

Signed and dated

c.1806

Medium and dimensions

Pen on oiled tracing paper, later stuck down on wove paper (440 x 275)

Hand

office

Notes

The plans show a building with a nine-bay front with a front column portico on Guildhall Yard and a back front of nine bays on Basinghall Street. The proposed institute is 108 feet wide by 174 feet long and in the centre is a semi-elliptical court marked 44.0 by 51.9. The ground floor is symmetrically planned around the long axis between front and back entrances except for the principal stair located on the right-hand side of the cross axis. The library and reading room are connected by two circular stairs, and are radially planned around the courtyard; the galleried lecture room has a semicircular plan.

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Drawing

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