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[359] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, early 1824
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Reference number
SM 53/4/78
Purpose
[359] Working drawing, Court of King's Bench, early 1824
Aspect
Plan and of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench, and adajacent office and corridors, with furnishings, as originally executed
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Antiroom / Area / Attorneys Seat / Clerks / desk / Fold[in]g. door (x 2) / Judges Clerks / &c / Judges retiring / Room / Jury / Kings Counsell (x 2) / Passage leading to the Bail Court / Principal Entrance for Council / Private Entrance for Judges / Seat (x 7) / Seats for Clerks / Staircase to / Consultation ro[o]m / a K[ing's]. C[ounsel]. [_] / Students / Tribunall / Water Clo[set] dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1824
dated in accordance with known building campaign
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, coloured washes of yellow, orange and blue, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (724 x 555)
Hand
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837), architect
Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane Office, draughtsman
Notes
A corresponding plan to SM 53/6/78; the latter taken at the gallery level, this at the principal floor level. A strip of wove paper has been affixed to the lower edge (46mm x 719mm).
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