[16] Design for the side elevation of a mausoleum, c.1788-89 executed to a variant design

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  - Castle Upton, Templepatrick, Co Antrim: designs for additions to a castle and a new stable block and offices for Clotworthy Upton, Lord Templetown, and a mausoleum dedicated to Arthur Upton, 1783-89 (16)
    - Designs for a mausoleum, 1788-89, executed to a variant design (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/85

Purpose

[16] Design for the side elevation of a mausoleum, c.1788-89 executed to a variant design

Aspect

Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay mausoleum building with a tiled, hipped roof. The central bay has a gated entrance within a rusticated arch with fluted capitals to the supporting piers and is flanked by niches containing urns with moulded panels and enclosed circles above. There is a central moulded panel flanked by a fluted frieze, with a continuous dentilled cornice above, surmounted by a stepped pedestal adorned with an enclosed rosette with festoons in the centre, with cinerary chests above

Scale

to a scale of 1/2 an inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Sepulchral Building for The Right Hon.^ble Arthur Upton / proposed to be built by [_] Honble M.^rs Upton at Castle Upton

Signed and dated

c.1788-89
datable to c.1788-89

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (376x339)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 6
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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