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[420] First design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 6 May 1824
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 53/3/32
Purpose
[420] First design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, before 6 May 1824
Aspect
Exterior perspective of the New Law Courts from the north west, with a Gothic façade to the Court of King's Bench, with octagonal corner turret, almost as executed
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
View of a Design for Gothicising the exterior of the Court of Kings Bench agreeably to the directions of a Select / Committee of the House of Commons, appointed on the 23.rd March 1824._.
Signed and dated
- 1824
dated in accordance with other drawings in this group
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, coloured washes of sepia and Payne's grey, on wove paper (537 x 449)
Hand
Soane Office
Watermark
Weatherley & Lane / 1818
Notes
The fenestration of the corner tower was altered in execution, and the linking range with Westminster Hall may not have been in the form shown here. The lancet windows in the corner turret agree with the reivisions to the design proposed by the Select Committee on 6 May 1824.
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