[427] Duplicate alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 10 July 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 53/3/49

Purpose

[427] Duplicate alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 10 July 1824

Aspect

Plan of Westminster Hall and the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, showing the revised Gothic screen wall and octagonal turret to the New Palace Yard façade (in dark pink) with the previous façade and offices indicated (in grey), as executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₁₀ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the New Courts at Westminster, altered agreeably to / the directions of the Select Committee. 6^th. May 1824. / John Soane Arch[itect] / Lincolns Inn Fields / 13^th May. 1824 / Scale of Feet / (This Plan was copied from the Plan received from the Office of Works / 22 June 1824 by C.[harles] J[ames]. Richardson) / Appendix to Report / from Select Committee / on Public Buildings at Westminster / 14 May 1824 / PART-OF- / WESTMINSTER-HALL- / -THE-COVRT-OF-COMMON-PLEAS. / -THE-IVDGES- / RETIRING-ROOM- / -AREA- (x 3) /-STAIR-CASE- (x 2) / CORRIDOR- / -THE-COVRT-OF-EXCHEQUER. / -THE-LORD-CHIEF- / BARON’S-RETIRING- / -ROOM- / ATTENDANTS-ON / THE-LORD-CHIEF-BARON. / THE-KING’S / REMEMBRANCERS. / -HALL- / THE-COVRT-OF-EQUITY / -THE-BAIL-COVRT- / THE-COVRT-OF-KING’S-BENCH- / ATTENDANTS-ON- / THE-LORD-CHIEF- / -IVSTICE- / THE-LORD-CHIEF-IVSTICE’S / RETIRING-ROOM- / (red pen) In N^o. 3076 / Copy dimensions given

Signed and dated

10/07/1824
10 July 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of buff, pink and blue, pen, grey pen, within septupal ruled wash border pricked for transfer on wove paper (641 x 484)

Hand

Charles James Richardson (1806 - 1871), draughtsman
signed by Charles Richardson

Watermark

J Whatman / 1822

Notes

This is a copy of SM 53/3/48, more denselycoloured washes than the latter. There are pencil sketches to the corridor and semi-circular staircase leading from Westminster Hall to the Court of King's Bench.

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.

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