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[5] Design for a church, c.1793, executed to a variant design
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 48/20
Purpose
[5] Design for a church, c.1793, executed to a variant design
Aspect
Plan of a church with shops to the front. Three sides of the church have wide apses with canted external walls that merge with protruding staircases. The shops adjoining the central apse to the front of the church and comprise four shop spaces with two staircases each. The plan also shows the footprint of the existing steeple and shops on Trongate
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet
Inscribed
Plan of the ground Story of a Church proposed to be built on the Scite[sic] of the Old Church in Trongate Street Glasgow / The Church may be built imeadiately[sic] but the parts tinted Grey and Red beingn two different designs ^ for Shops in front give the / alter^native of either removing the Buildings and Steple[sic] towards the Street or of retaining them as they non Stand / Pulpit / Church / Staircase / Lobby / Hall / Lobby / Staircase / Area / Pulpit / passage / Stairs / Back Shop / Back Shop / Front Shop / Front Shop / Lobby / Front Shop / Front Shop / Back Shop / Back Shop / Staircase / Area / Door / line of Street / The Old Steple[sic] / Shops fronting the Trongate / (in pencil) a faire copy of this [_ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] / (verso) Part Office / (in pencil) J Stuart Sheemess
Signed and dated
- c.1793
datable to c.1793
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (377x539)
Hand
Possibly
James Adam or John Robertson
James Adam or John Robertson
Watermark
W surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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