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Reference number
SM D2/8/17
Purpose
Lowther Castle, Westmorland, 1803
Aspect
[2] Plan, 3 faint part-plans and faint half-front elevation
Scale
(plan) 1/24 in to 1 ft approximately and (elevation) 1/20 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
rooms labelled, dimensions given and key with list of rooms and their dimensions: A Gothic Hall - 20 x 30 / B Dining room - 24 x 48 / C Breakfast Rm - 18 x 24 / D Drawing Rm 24 x 36 / E Library - 24 x 40 / F continued - [tower extension to the library] 16 x 16 / G Gothic Passages - 7 x 110 / H Principal Stair 17 Diamr / I Back Stair - 9 x 15 / Offices / L Butler / M Bed[room] / N Plate [together] 24 x 24 / O Servants Hall 18 x 30 / P Servants Entrance / Q Housekeeper / R Stillroom &c [together] 18 x 30 / S Kitchen - 22 x 30 / T Brewhouse / W Cover'd way
Signed and dated
- 1803
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink wash, pencil on laid paper (480 x 675)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and WR below
Notes
The design is quadrangular with a new? east wing of about 192 feet and a shorter new? south wing set around a courtyard with Laundry Bakehouse Kitchen Offices &c to the north?, Steward / Justice [room] Chapel to the west? and Family private / Apartments to the south-west? These last two wings with the family apartments may be existing or else were left to be fully worked out by Dance. Kalman did not associate this plan with Lowther. His account (pp.179-81) is for an 'unidentified scheme' and discusses the dimensions of the rooms with their ratios and musical equivalents. However, the huge size of the project and its style suggest that this is one of Dance's schemes for Lowther Castle.
Of the three faint pencil plans, two seem to be revisions of the south? wing and, of the south wing and part of the east? wing. The other part-plan is related to the half-elevation that shows a three-storey building with (from the left) nine bays divided into three parts of three bays each by turrets; a narrower taller bay flanked by turrets; and an arched opening in the centre. This faintly drawn elevation does not relate to the more fully drawn out courtyard plan but is to the same scale and has a correspondence to the elevation shown on [SM D2/8/14] which might be evidence of the more fully drawn-out courtyard plan being associated with Lowther.
Of the three faint pencil plans, two seem to be revisions of the south? wing and, of the south wing and part of the east? wing. The other part-plan is related to the half-elevation that shows a three-storey building with (from the left) nine bays divided into three parts of three bays each by turrets; a narrower taller bay flanked by turrets; and an arched opening in the centre. This faintly drawn elevation does not relate to the more fully drawn out courtyard plan but is to the same scale and has a correspondence to the elevation shown on [SM D2/8/14] which might be evidence of the more fully drawn-out courtyard plan being associated with Lowther.
Level
Drawing
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