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Reference number

SM 89/3/64v

Purpose

[61] Preliminary survey, Court of Exchequer and offices, c January 1822

Aspect

Plan of the north-west corner of the Court of Exchequer offices, possibly the basement level of Oliver's Coffee House, and section through the Court of Exchequer

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

External Heights / Room in Excheq[ue]r Coff[ee] Ho[use]: / Height of Excheq[ue]r Co[ur]t. Lanthorn light [_] / Room next Stone Building – x / D[itt]o. back of D[itt]o. - √ / Gallery at end of Co[ur]t. of Excheq[ue]r. O / Room over Olivers Coffee Ho[use] at the Corner & shut up / Attics over gallery of Xchequer end [_] of Exch[e]q[uer] Co[ur]t dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 01/01/1822 - 31/01/1822
    dated in accordance with known survey campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, on laid paper (359 x 249)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Horned crown above escutcheon with fleur de lys and monogram.

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.

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