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[11] Preliminary survey, Westminster Hall, c 1822
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Reference number
SM Vol 49/10
Purpose
[11] Preliminary survey, Westminster Hall, c 1822
Aspect
Section of a window and elevation of buttress at Westminster Hall, with elevations of entrance arches to the Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Dormer / Exchequer Court / Entrance to W[estminste]r Hall / H[eight of] Pav[emen]t. / Entrance / to the Court of / Common Pleas dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c 1822
dated in accodance with known survey campaign
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, on wove paper bound in volume (212 x 275)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Notes
A comparable study of the doorways leading to the Courts of Law appear on SM 37/1/7. There are also sketch details of carved ornament, including a seated hart; the personal badge of Richard II (reigned 1377 - 1399) which proliferates the carved stonework of the Hall.
Level
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.
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk