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Reference number

SM volume 73/57

Purpose

[23] Design drawings for a Vestibule with alcoves in the recesses, paired columns at all entrances and an additional pair of attached columns at the east entrance, 19 April 1803

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

(pencil) Pencil, flue (twice) and dimensions given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

  • April 19: 1803

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 73/72 and SM volume 73/19 show attached columns in the east end of the Vestibule and facing semicircular alcoves in the north and south recesses. The door to the windlass closet has been moved outside near the Porter's Lodge to the north, thereby freeing up space for the symmetrical recesses. Pencil inscriptions on the drawing suggest building a flue behind the alcove on the east wall of each recess.

Level

Drawing

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