Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[3] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design
Browse
Reference number
SM Adam volume 1/145
Purpose
[3] Preliminary designs for a church, 1793, executed to a variant design
Aspect
Plan, elevation, and perspective of a two-storey church, similar to SM Adam volume 54/7/254, with a central gable and corner towers to the front. The church has a pitched roof and the gabled front is flanked by octagonal towers containing stairs. Only the perspective shows the corner towers at both ends of the church and there is an alternative plan in pencil showing octagonal corner towers with square stairs towers flanking the central bay instead. The elevation is adorned with arched windows, oculi, hood mouldings, cornices, string coursing, balustrading, crenelations and corbelled bartizans with pepper-pot roofs. There are some additional pencil annotations
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 of an inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Church for / Chapel of the Heritors of the Barony Parish Glasgow, to contain / 1500 Persons – / (verso) Body of the Church / [_ _ _ _] on the turret of / staircases [_ _ _ _ _ _] &c / octagonal staircases &c / Body of Church bro+ down / 6.6 foot on the turret [_ _ _] / & turns for Corbel Cornices &c / and [_ _ _ _ _] Scaffolding with some calculations
Signed and dated
- 1793
datable to 1793
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (293x203)
Hand
Probably
James Adam
James Adam
Watermark
JC enclosed in a circle
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 14
King, 2001, pp. 73-75
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, pp. 73-75
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk