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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/254

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

Watermark

W surmounted by a shield with a fleur de lis above

Level

Drawing

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