[360] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, early 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)
      - Northern Range - Court of King's Bench, 1823-29 (207)
        Giant Order Scheme, 1823-26 (17)
        Design and Working Drawings, 1823-24 (7)

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Reference number

SM 53/4/77

Purpose

[360] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, early 1824

Aspect

Plan and of the upper (gallery) level of the Court of King's Bench, and adajacent office and corridors, with furnishings for the gallery, as originally executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₄ inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

1824
dated in accordance with known building campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes of yellow and orange, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (733 x 492)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt / 1823

Notes

The New Palace Yard façade has curved corners and four giant order columns. A correspoding pair of columns have been sketched onto the north-west pavilion tower of the Stone Building. A squared corner have also been sketched over the north-east corner in pencil.

Literature

Sawyer, 1999: 635, footnote 1885

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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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