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Reference number

SM volume 76/56

Purpose

[123] Site progress drawing, 20 November 1814

Aspect

View of part of the New Stables at Chelsea Hospital (west side) with a small pile of broken bricks and some planks in the foreground. The return three-bay wings await their roofs.

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • Novr. 20. 1814

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The view of the stables represented here shows the west range, with a central doorway that extends through as a passageway, for pedestrians (being too narrow for a carriage to pass). The arched openings with jambs (on which the doors would be hung) all lead to double stalls. The two wider arches would eventually have large double doors across them and lead to coach houses. Both of these have a side door leading into further stalls (as can be seen from the plan in SM 67/1/7). The partly constructed ranges to the north and south also had stalls.

Literature

P. Dean, 'The Royal Hospital Chelsea I- Pre-1815' in Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p.68

Level

Drawing

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