Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

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  - Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis) (226). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, design and working drawings

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Reference number

SM D5/3/40

Purpose

Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

Aspect

[152] Section including detail of iron bracket

Scale

Scale ¾ inch to the Foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled Floor of Museum, Springing line of Dome, dimensions given, (verso, Dance) R C of Surgeons / Section of circular ends / of Museum, Section of circular end / of the Museum shewing / the Stone Gallery and (cancelled) M^r Spencer

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Black and red pen, pink, blue, burnt umber and sepia washes, pencil on laid paper (660 x 420)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV

Notes

[SM D5/3/33], [SM D5/3/38], [SM D5/3/39] and [SM D5/3/40] more or less correspond though, for example, the width of the radiating blind arches is marked 4 feet 9 inches as well as 4 feet 10 inches. More importantly, Dance increased the number of cantilevers from 10 to 16, at the same time relocating them either side of the 8 inch, or wider, piers rather than anchoring them within the piers. The iron cantilevers are 5 feet 4 inches long, with a depth of 3½, 4½ and 8 inches reflecting the curved section. A slab of Portland stone 6 feet 4 inches long lay on top of the bracket and a slab of York paving below.

Kalman (p.219) notes 'Iron beams had first appeared in English architecture only about a dozen years earlier.... The I-section, on which idea the museum beams are based, was first used at ... the Cotton Twist Mil in Salford, built 1799-1801....The Royal College of Surgeons ranks among the first examples of iron beams employed within a building principally for their strength [rather than for fire-resistance]'.

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Drawing

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