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Reference number

SM Vol 51/7

Purpose

[319] Preliminary survey on completion, Court of King's Bench, January 1825

Aspect

Section through the Court of King's Bench, showing the ancillary accommodation facing St Margaret's Street, looking north, as originally executed

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Heights of building / New Courts. / [Dedret?] 2" dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • January 1825
    dated in accordance with known building campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, on wove paper bound in volume (212 x 279)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

This section may have been copied from a working drawing of the façade shown, rather than from on-site observation, though the given dimensions would favour the latter (see SM 53/3/11).

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