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

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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

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.

Level

Drawing

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