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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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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