[2] Design for a church, c.1793, unexecuted

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  - Tron Church, Glasgow: designs for a church, c.1793, executed to a variant design (7)
    - Alternative design for a church, c.1793, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/21

Purpose

[2] Design for a church, c.1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan of an octagonal church with a protruding front flanked by three-bay houses. The front of the church comprises a portico with an entrance through a central apse leading to a vestibule flanked by staircases. There are lobbies, a waiting room and a vestry room and the church has a gallery supported by columns. The flanking houses comprise a dining room, drawing room, dressing room and entrance hall with a staircase against the party wall

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Church at Glasgow with Dwelling Houses in front / (in another hand) Church / 80 feet Diam^r / Vestry room / Waiting room / Passage heading to the Ground round the Church / Dining room / Dress^g. room / Stairs / Staircase / Drawing room / Hall / Lobby / Vestibule / Lobby / Staircase/ Dressg room / Stairs / Dining room / Hall / Drawing room / Passage heading to the ground round the Church with some annotations and calculations in pencil / (verso) no # 6

Signed and dated

c.1793
datable to c.1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink coloured wash on laid paper (585x475)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam or John Robertson

Watermark

J Whatman / W surmounted by a shield with a fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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