[188] Design, Vice Chancellor's Court, Court of Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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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)
        First Phase - Site, 1822-23 (19)

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Reference number

SM 53/4/69

Purpose

[188] Design, Vice Chancellor's Court, Court of Chancery and Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, 1824

Aspect

Plan of the roofs and guttering over the Vice Chancellor's Court, the Court of Chancery and the Lord Chancellor's Robing Room, with four accompanying sections, nearly as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

New Law Courts / Plan of the Roofs of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, - the Court of Chancery, and the Lord Chancellor's Robing Room. / G (x 2) / Gutter (x 9) dimensions given

Signed and dated

1824
1824.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of red and blue pen on wove paper (658 x 499)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

1821

Notes

The area shown sits between two corridors (running from east to west) linking the Public Corridor and Westminster Hall to the existing parts of the Stone Building. The plan demonstrates the careful provisions made for drainage, the pitch of separate roofs and the positions of rainwater heads. The rear of the Stone Building is indicated in grey. As built, there was a short connecting link built from the centre of the Court of Chancery's west wall to the south-eastern corner of the central block of the Stone Building.

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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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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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