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[447] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, early April 1824
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 53/6/15
Purpose
[447] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, early April 1824
Aspect
Exterior perspective of Westminster Hall with flanking Gothic ranges to the east and west, returning on the eastern side of New Palace Yard, from the north west, unexecuted
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
No 16
Signed and dated
- 01/04/1824 - 15/04/1824
dated in accordance with SM 53/8/58
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, coloured washes of sepia, burnt sienna and Payne's grey, within single ruled border on wove paper (600 x 460)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
Weatherley & Lane
Notes
For this proposal, the vantage point is an elevated one taken at the junction of Bridge Street with St Margaret's Street; the corner of Garden Square visible in the foreground. The arches of the Royal Entrance are visible at the extreme right. The simple elevations most closely relate to those shown for the Court of King's Bench in SM 53/8/52 and SM 53/8/58. The large arches in the Record Building's façade would have given access to St Stephen's Court, immediately behind the proposed range, on the south side of which stood the Speaker's House. That beneath the Gothic oriel window in the easternmost range relates to the scheme for a 'Watergate' in this location, shown in SM 53/6/12.
Literature
Sawyer, 1999: p 607; footnote 1795
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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