Scale
bar scale of 3/10 inch to 1 foot, approximately
Inscribed
Wardour Castle, Drawing for Roof over Dome of Chapel, Scantlings // Principal Beams 13" by 10" // Angle Braces 9" by 9" // Principal Beams over flat 10" by 8" // Wall Plate 8" by 5½, plan lettered A to F corresponding to key: Figr Is a Plan desicribing the situation of Beams, Plates and / Braces // B Are Beams over Arches with short Pieces framed between as at C and bolted / together // D are Beams Bolted together and running thro: to wall Plate // E Are angular braces // F beam of Rafter continued through from Plate to Plate and dimensions given; (verso) Section on line AB / shewing the principal rafters over lanter[n] of Dome, and care must / be taken that the collar beam hang[s] so high as to clear the cieling / of Dome. The king Post to be large enough so as to admit the hip / and End rafters to be framed into it; with plates of Iron and / Bolts as are described in the section AB an Iron plate must / be formed and fixed on the Collar beam of hip / & End raftrese and to turn up ot the King Posts / as at a the section on line CD describe the Plate / of Iron more perfect. The Principal beam over / flat, these markers EE only to be framed with / the braces: those marked F to be notched down / and well primed, Line of dome, Archavolt (sic) round Arch, C, Scantlings // Principal Rafters 11" by 7" at Botton (sic) and 9" by 6" at [top] (sheet trimmed) // Collar Beams 8" by 6" // King Posts 12" by 6" // Purloins 7 by 5 // Single Rafters 4 by 3" // Principal Beams over flat 11" by 9" // Siingle Joists over flat 11" by 2½ // Braces 6" by 6", Section on line CD // shewing the End Rafter framed into the Principal / Rafter A with the Iron plate at bottom of Collar Beam --etio- / against the King Post. Rib C in one length framed into / beam d and collar beam c, Line of dome, Archavolt [sic] round arch and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 22 September 1788
Copy Welbeck Street Sepr 22nd 1788
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and grey, pink and yellow washes on cartridge paper (509 x 626)
Hand
attributed to Robert Woodgate (clerk 1788-1791)
Notes
The sanctuary addition has a domed ceiling between apsidal ends. A hipped roof covers the centre while lean-to roofs (almost flat) are over the transepts. Three of the working drawings are cancelled in pencil. SM 77/1/35, SM 77/1/36, SM 77/1/37 and SM 77/1/38 show the roof timbers as well as the ribs that support the ceiling.
Level
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