[201] Preliminary survey on completion, Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, c 1822-24

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Southern Range - Vice Chancellor's Court, Court of Chancery & Lord Chancellor's Room, 1822-29 (82)
        Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, 1822-29 (11)
        Survey drawings on completion, 1824-29 (3)

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Reference number

SM Vol 49/17

Purpose

[201] Preliminary survey on completion, Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, c 1822-24

Aspect

Sections and elevation of ancillary spaces immediately adjacent to the Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, with sections of lead and elevation of adjacent buttress, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Leads robing room / Lord Chan[cellor] ?? / Robing room adj[oinin]^g dimensions given

Signed and dated

c 1822-24

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, on wove paper bound in volume (212 x 275)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Fellows & Sons / 1821

Notes

These sketches appear to be preliminary drawings for planning level changes and a clerestory rooflight beneath a flying buttress of Westminster Hall. They show the Public Corridor immediately adjacent to the Hall's west wall. An elevation of the buttress's post-mediaeval coping and the demi-grotesque corbel carrying the arch are also given.

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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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