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  • image SM 53/3/15

Reference number

SM 53/3/15

Purpose

[404] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 12 April 1824

Aspect

Plan of the main (ground) floor of the Court of King's Bench and adjacent offices, with two variant proposals for the new screen wall to New Palace Yard, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

New Law Courts. / Lincoln's Inn Fields. / ·BAIL·COURT· / ·COURT·OF·EQUITY· / ·COURT·OF·EXCHEQUER· / ·COURT·OF·KING’S·BENCH· / ·LORD·CHIEF·BARON’S / ·RETIRING·ROOM· / ·LORD·CHIEF·JUSTICE’S· / ·RETIRING·ROOM· / ·WESTMINSTER·HALL· / Scale of Feet

Signed and dated

  • 12/04/1824
    12th. April 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of buff, pink and blue, pen, within sextuple ruled border pricked for transfer on wove paper (571 x 455)

Hand

Bailey, George (1792--1860), draughtsman
The Day Book entry for 12 April 1824 notes that George Bailey was working About Plans &c. of the New Courts for the Select Committee. Soane attended a meeting of the latter the same day.

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane / 1818

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