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Reference number

SM 64/5/27

Purpose

[95] Design for elevation, not as built

Aspect

Elevation of the South side and Section through the Court

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and The Right Honble / The Lord Eliot

Signed and dated

  • 27/03/1806
    Lincolns Inn Fields / March 27: 1806
  • 27/03/1806
    March 27: 1806
  • 27/03/1806
    Lincolns Inn Fields / March 27: 1806

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and blue washes, shaded, partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (501 x 650)

Hand

Attributed to Brinsley John Storace
Pupil April 1804 - February 1807.

Notes

P. Beacham and N. Pevsner, Cornwall, 2014, p.549 has (of the stables) '... arranged in paired ranges N and S of a central yard with gatepiers forming an entrance at the E end .... Each range has a central two-storey block ... flanked by single-storey symmetrical wings'.

Photographs (SMT file) of the exterior of the stables show that while the plan appears to have the form shown in drawing [94], the elevations differ from what is seen in drawing [95]. So that, as built, windows were pointed (four-centred) and without hood moulds. A new and intriguing detail not seen on the drawings is the row of plain brackets ('modillions') supporting the battlemented parapet.

From the Soane Monumnents Trust files (by Ptolemy Dean on a visit in 1994) it seems that the centre of the south range of the stables has been converted into a house while (at that time) the centre block of the north range was 'in a sorry state'.

An email from Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans (8 March 2016) suggests that 'with some almost insignificant details the drawing ([95] you sent was adhered to in its entirety'.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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