[353] Record drawing, Court of King's Bench, 1824

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Reference number

SM 53/3/25

Purpose

[353] Record drawing, Court of King's Bench, 1824

Aspect

Plan of the first floor of the Court of King's Bench and adjacent offices, with furnishings, and alternative plan of the west wall to St Margaret's Street, as originally executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₅ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

New Law Courts at Westminster. / Plan of the Rooms on the First Floor connected with the Court of King's Bench / as originally designed. -

Signed and dated

1824
1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, yellow wash, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (529 x 360)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Verso

Section through a building with a pitched roof, with a bar scale of ¹/₈ inch to 1 foot, and rough elevation.

Notes

This drawing records the provisions of benches for barristers and their clients which Soane intended to be accommodated immediately adjacent to the Court. The New Palace Yard façade is shown with projecting corners, given extra visual strength by engaged pilasters; the latter introduced by Soane as a penultimate revision prior to adopting disengaged columns. This plan corresponds with the elevation shown on SM 53/8/25.

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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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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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