[218] Design for alterations to apartments in the north wing of the Light Horse Court, 31 January 1820

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  - London: Royal Hospital, Chelsea for the Board of Commissioners, 1807-1835 (226)
    - Surveys, alterations and repairs to Wren's Chapel, the north wing of the Light Horse Court and the Octagon porch portico, December 1817 - April 1835 (12)

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Reference number

SM 66/5/7

Purpose

[218] Design for alterations to apartments in the north wing of the Light Horse Court, 31 January 1820

Aspect

Ground floor Plan of the Physicians Apartments / on the 1 pair Floor (North East angle of Main Building), Chelsea Hospital

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, labelled (pencil) alterations / _ _ _ / for / D. _ _ _ _ _ [illegible] (twice)

Signed and dated

31^st. January 1820

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM 66/5/4, SM 66/5/3 and SM 66/5/5 show the same part of Wren's Hospital as SM 66/5/2 and SM 66/5/6, though they are dated later and relate to later alterations: slightly varied room allocations ('Secretary' is labelled on SM 66/5/4 of a room that was previously the Comptroller's) and some pencil additions including staircase alterations. The layout of rooms is similar in both sets of drawings.

As this drawing shows, the Physician had apartments on the first floor. The Board of Commissioners' minutes for February 1820 record Soane's estimates for repairs to these quarters and the Commissioners' orders that the Physician should be found accommodation elsewhere. The board also asked Soane 'to submit a Plan and Estimate for altering the Premises situated between the Apartments of the First Chaplain and the Comptroller, in such manner as to afford each of those Officers the accommodations solicited by them in their Memorial'. The drawing is evidently a survey for the proposed division of the Physician's apartments on the first floor, between the Chaplain and Comptroller, though it is unclear how the rooms were to be divided.

Literature

Royal Hospital Chelsea: Board Minutes and Papers, January 1816-September 1818 (National Archives WO 250/377)

Level

Drawing

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