[429] Record drawing, final design, New Law Courts, after May 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Northern Range - Court of King's Bench, 1823-29 (207)
        Select Committee Revisions, 1824-29 (79)
        Alternative Number Five: Octagonal Corner Turret, May 1824-April 1829 (27)
        Design and working drawings, May 1824-26 (21)

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Reference number

SM 53/3/44

Purpose

[429] Record drawing, final design, New Law Courts, after May 1824

Aspect

Plan of the Court of King's Bench and adjacent offices, with Gothic screen wall and corner turet to New Palace Yard (the former Palladian façade shown in grey), and corresponding elevation above, with internal floor levels indicated in pink, and flyer showing variant for larger scale of battlements, as executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₅ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan and Elevation of the Exterior of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster as Altered in May 1824 agreeably to an Order / of A Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed 23^rd March 1824.. /The Court of King's Bench / Outline of Rooms pulled down dimensions given

Signed and dated

after May 1824
dated in accordance with known design campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown and grey pen, coloured washes of pink, raw umber, burnt umber and sepia, pricked for transfer on wove paper (603 x 681); flyer (477 x 79)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

The sheet has been extended on its left edge with an affixed strip (83mm x 681mm). The mouldings to the upper window's soffits are larger and simplified in comparisson to those shown in SM 53/3/43. Additional windows to the Gothic façade are lightly sketched in pencil.

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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.

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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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