[464] Alternative design, Court of King's Bench, 6 August 1826

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Reference number

SM 53/3/23

Purpose

[464] Alternative design, Court of King's Bench, 6 August 1826

Aspect

Plan of the north wall of the Court of King's Bench, with adjacent offices to New Palace Yard restored, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₅ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

N^o 4

Signed and dated

06/08/1826
6^th August 1826 (erased)

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, pink wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper (579 x 224)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Watermark

Weatherley & Lane / 1818

Notes

This is one of a series of four variants for reinstating the accommodation lost by the 1824 Select Committee (see SM 53/3/21 - 24). This drawing proposes projecting corner towers with angle buttresses, in place of the curved corners of the built scheme. Such a plan might imply a Gothic, rather than Palladian, elevation was intended.

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