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Reference number
SM D2/8/11
Purpose
Lowther Castle, Westmorland, 1803
Aspect
[1] Rough front elevation and plan of front wall, with very rough plan of proposal for a new house on a rectangular plan, with porch and large round corner towers, and extensive offices in curved wings behind the house
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Lowther Hall / near Penrith Westmorland / 286 Miles from London, labelled Slate (roof), redstone (pediment and plinth) rough cast white, rough cast very white (wall) and notes opening of Windows about 4.6, Ridges & Hyps clumsily finish'd with stone, Quoins Tympanum of Pidiment [sic] & all dressing of a red chocolate colour Stone
Dated: Sepr 25th 1803
Signed and dated
- 1803
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil on laid secretary paper (200 x 315)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
Britannia with spear, shield and olive branch in crowned roundel 1801
Notes
The stable block recorded here is nine bays wide and two storeys high with hipped, projecting end bays, a pedimented centre of three bays, and with quoins and cross windows. It was built in and soon after 1678 and survived until the construction of Smirke's castle, 1806-11.
Dance's rough elevation corresponds to an elevation (with plan) of the east outer (stable) wing of Lowther Hall, a survey drawing made after the fire of 1718 (Lowther Archive, Cumbria Record Office Carlisle, L,11/2/11), reproduced in H. Colvin, J. M. Crook & T. Friedman, 'Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle Westmorland', Architectural History Monograph No.2, 1980 fig.7b.
The faint rough plan for a new building is a preliminary version of a Dance plan in the Lowther archive (Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle, L,11/6/1), reproduced in Colvin et al. 1980, fig.30b. Robert Smirke's executed design was to retain much the same layout.
Dance's rough elevation corresponds to an elevation (with plan) of the east outer (stable) wing of Lowther Hall, a survey drawing made after the fire of 1718 (Lowther Archive, Cumbria Record Office Carlisle, L,11/2/11), reproduced in H. Colvin, J. M. Crook & T. Friedman, 'Architectural drawings from Lowther Castle Westmorland', Architectural History Monograph No.2, 1980 fig.7b.
The faint rough plan for a new building is a preliminary version of a Dance plan in the Lowther archive (Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle, L,11/6/1), reproduced in Colvin et al. 1980, fig.30b. Robert Smirke's executed design was to retain much the same layout.
Level
Drawing
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