Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14 (193). Survey drawings, alternative designs, designs and working drawings for alterations and additions, including the modelling of the principal front, a new staircase and for a garden bridge, for 3rd Earl Ashburnham

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Reference number

SM D2/6/14

Purpose

Ashburnham Place, Sussex, 1813-14

Aspect

[189] Section of the Mouldings A round / the front of great / Arch of the Bridge / Full size and Mouldings B Full size / Base of the Octagon Turrets

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, labelled Face of Ashler above the Arch and Sofite of Arch, Line of high water and (verso, Dance) Bridge (twice)

Signed and dated

1813-14

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (905 x 675)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

Edmeads & Co 1804

Notes

Thomas Nuttall's accounts for stone-quarrying and mason's work, 1813-17, include a bill, dated 9 May 1813 to 14 May 1814, for the bridge which includes foundations and piledriving. An undated bill for 'Bridge in Park' has charges 'Labor on materials prepared for Terraces [and added later] used at the Bridge' (ASH 2805).

Dance's stone bridge replaced an earlier one of wood (Country Life, XXIX, 1916, p.146). Like its predecessor it carries the drive over the lake designed by Capability Brown and, with elements of the garden terraces, is the only part of Dance's work at Ashburnham that has survived.

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Drawing

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