[69] Working drawing, 14 September 1810

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - Infirmary, August 1809 - November 1810, April - July 1818 and c.1833 (88)

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Reference number

SM volume 76/2

Purpose

[69] Working drawing, 14 September 1810

Aspect

Plan of one of the Wards of the New Infirmary at Chelsea Hospital

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Sept^r. 14^th 1810

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The Physician and Surgeon at Chelsea Hospital both advised Soane that accommodation for 80 patients would be necessary in the proposed Infirmary. Soane suggested that this would not be possible given the constraints imposed by the necessary re-use of Yarborough House (in his report, given to the Board of Commissioners on 13 April 1809.

This drawing and SM volume 76/30 show the floor plan of a ward, presumably one of those at the southern-most end of the projecting wings.

Literature

Papers, presented to the House of Commons, relating to the Building of a New Infirmary, and the Leasing of Ground at Chelsea Hospital (ordered by the House of Commons) to be Printed, 20^th April 1809

Level

Drawing

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