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[2] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/254
Purpose
[2] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design
Aspect
Sketch elevation of a two-storey, five-bay church, similar to SM Adam volume 54/7/253, with a central gabled tower flanked by bays with lean-to roofs and terminating in octagonal towers with pepper-pot roofs. The elevation is adorned with arched windows, oculi, hood mouldings, cornices, string coursing, balustrading, crenelations, crosses 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 (240x231)
Hand
Probably
James Adam
James Adam
Watermark
W surmounted by a shield with a fleur de lis above
Level
Drawing
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