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[412] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 29 May 1824
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Reference number
SM 53/8/57
Purpose
[412] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 29 May 1824
Aspect
Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts from the north west, with the elevation to St Margaret's Street, with a Gothic façade to the Court of King's Bench, with curved corners, unexecuted
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
View of a Design for Gothicising the exterior of the New Court of Kings Bench &c.
Signed and dated
- 29/05/1824
29th. May 1824.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, coloured washes of burnt sienna, sepia and blue, on wove paper (542 x 417)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
Weatherley & Lane / 1818
Notes
The proposed elevation is identical to that shown in SM P405, saving for the cropped corner pinnacles and the linking range to Westminster Hall beign of two storeys, not one as shown here. The pyramidal roof to The Stone Building's northern pavilion tower was also omitted on the former. A proposed Record Building to the east of Westminster Hall was sketched in, then erased.
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