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[52] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810
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Reference number
SM 67/5/9
Purpose
[52] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810
Aspect
Plan of the ground floor, Chelsea Hospital / design for the / Infirmary -, with an elevation of the south front
Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
as above, labelled Chelsea Hospital, Matron (twice), Entrance (twice), Nurse (five times), Staircase (twice), Ward / for / 4 Births, sink (three times), Water Clos[et] (twice), Lobby (twice), Ward / for / 8 Births (twice), ab[ou]t. 68 feet, Colonnade for exercise in bad Weather, Ward / for / Eight births (twice), Bathroom, closet, Common Room / for / the Nurses, Washouse, do[or], Foul Ward, Ward / for / five patients, ch[imn]y and some dimensions given
Hand
Soane
Notes
This design could be labelled 'design B' as by this point Soane had succumbed to the Board of Commissioners' wishes that the new Infirmary should involve the conversion of at least part of Yarborough House. Thus as Margaret Richardson writes, the new design 'consisted of a long range of buildings running east-west from which two wings extended south', as shown here.
Literature
M. Richardson, 'Soane in Chelsea', pp.45-51, The Chelsea Society Report, 1992
Level
Drawing
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