[1] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/253

Purpose

[1] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design

Aspect

Three variant sketch elevations of a two-storey church with a central arched window over a balustraded arcade with either a central gable or tower with a pepper-pot roof. The central bay in the elevation on the right is flanked by bays with lean-to roofs, terminating in octagonal towers with pyramidal roofs. Across the three elevations are arched windows, oculi, cornices, string coursing, crenelations, and corbelled bartizans with pepper-pot roofs

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1793
datable to 1793

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (327x211)

Hand

probably
James Adam

Verso

Three variant sketch elevations for a two-storey, three-bay church, similar to the recto, with a variety of roofs

Watermark

Crowned cartouche containing a man enthroned

Level

Drawing

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