[13] Preliminary survey, Westminster Hall, c 1822

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Reference number

SM Vol 49/2

Purpose

[13] Preliminary survey, Westminster Hall, c 1822

Aspect

Section through a buttress and dormer window of Westminster Hall, with details

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Courts at Westminster dimensions given

Signed and dated

c 1822
dated in accordance with known survey campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, on wove paper bound in volume (274 x 211)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Fellows & Sons / 1821

Notes

It is impossible to identify to specific buttress shown in this drawing, though it records the severely decayed condition of the buttress pinnacles by the early Nineteenth Century. The details include a demi-grotesque corbel on the underside of the buttress arch and the upper part of a two-centred biforate window. The latter bears a close resemblance to the external appearance of the thirteenth-century windows in the east wall of the Painted Chamber. There is also a detail sketch of foliage, perhaps related to the latter.

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Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation. This catalogue of Soane’s designs for the New Law Courts was generously funded by The Worshipful Company of Mercers and The Pilgrim Trust.

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