[6] Drawings for the sanctuary addition

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  - Wardour Castle, Wiltshire: (executed) extension to a chapel for 8th Lord Arundell of Wardour, 1788 (30)

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Reference number

SM 47/2/56

Purpose

[6] Drawings for the sanctuary addition

Aspect

Plan of Altar and Plan of Vault under Altar

Scale

bar scale of 2/13 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Right Hon^bleLord Arundell, Chapel at Wardour Castle, The Parts coloured red are new / those coloured dark are old, plans lettered A to H, The door F is to be in the middle / between G & H, E.E. These Piers of / equal dimensions, Radius of 14'9¼" (three times), This supposed line K is to be exactly / under the middle of door above, Radius 14'6¼", Foundation of altar, (Soane) A.A. These windows / to be cut out 3 feet / from the floor of the / vault. // B.C. this wall is to / be continued in a / streight line. / D. These walls are / not to be built / until directed, / but indents left / 3 inches deep, and dimensions given, calculations, (pencil) Not Perfect; (verso) Philip Yorke Esq^rMP / New Cavendish Street / London

Signed and dated

6 May 1788
Welbeck Street, May 6^th1788

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and grey and pink washes on laid paper with four fold marks (459 x 582)

Hand

John Sanders (pupil 1784-90)

Notes

This drawing and the verso of SM 47/2/58 have plans for the basement and ground floor of the new addition. SM 91/1/3a is a copy of this drawing made in June 1805. The drawings show variant designs for both basement and ground floor. On the basement plans, SM 47/2/58 has erasure marks between the piers and on the staircase while this drawing includes these alterations while displaying additional alterations in rough pen. Conversely, the ground floor plan appears more developed in SM 47/2/58. 'Not perfect' is inscribed in pencil beside the ground floor plan on this drawing. SM 47/2/58 has a ceiling plan; rough designs for the coffering are in the margins of the sheet.

This drawing is addressed to Philip Yorke, later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, at his house in New Cavendish Street, London. Soane's reasoning for sending a working drawing to Yorke is unclear. Yorke was an early patron to Soane. Shortly after meeting in Italy, he commissioned alterations to his estate at Hamels Park, Hertfordshire as well as at his townhouse on New Cavendish Street. Soane also made alterations to Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, when Yorke inherited his title.

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