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[409] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 25 May 1824
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Reference number
SM 53/8/40
Purpose
[409] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 25 May 1824
Aspect
Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts, the New Palace Yard façade from the north west looking south east, with Gothic Records building to the east of Westminster Hall, unexecuted
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
No. 24 (x 2)
Signed and dated
- 24/04/1824
25/5/[18]24
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, wash, coloured washes of sepia and Payne's grey, within single ruled border on laid paper (582 x 482)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
Weatherley & Lane / 1818
Notes
The New Law Court's elevation to St Margaret's Street is shown compared to other variant schemes. The façade to New Palace Yard is of three bays with square corners and no attic. The fenestration is rectangular, with circular-headed niches between the ground floor windows, and recessed panels over those of the first floor. The variant is insipid and bereft of invention.
The proposed Record Building is notably, by contrast to the majority of the variant schemes, shown as Gothic. It is crenelated with projecing corners and an arched entrance to New Palace Yard.
The proposed Record Building is notably, by contrast to the majority of the variant schemes, shown as Gothic. It is crenelated with projecing corners and an arched entrance to New Palace Yard.
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