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[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
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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