[6] Finished drawing 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)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 48/18

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a church, c.1793, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a two-storey, seven-bay principal façade to a church and shops. The central five bays of the ground floor are rusticated and contain arched openings with fanlights, the central three bays protrude out and support four pairs of Corinthian columns to the first floor which support a tall entablature and attic storey adorned with heraldry flanked by sphinxes. Across the elevation is a mixture of square-headed windows, oculi, cornices, string coursing, friezes, decorative panels and bottle-neck balustrading

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Church at Glasgow with Shops in Front through which it enters ~

Signed and dated

c.1793
datable to c.1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (476x286)

Hand

Possibly
James Adam or John Robertson

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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