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  • image SM 53/3/51

Reference number

SM 53/3/51

Purpose

[382] Finished drawing, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 9 April 1824

Aspect

Plan of Westminster Hall and the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, showing a reduction in the footprint to New Palace Yard façade, with the previous façade and offices indicated (in grey), not as executed

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Part of the New Courts at Westminster, altered agreeably to the direction of the / Select Committee of the House of Commons. / No. 2. / Scale of Feet / ·WESTMINSTER·HALL· / ·COVRT·OF· / ·COMMON·PLEAS· / ·IUDGES·RETIRING· / ·ROOM· / ·AREA· (x 2) / ·COVRT·OF·KING’S·BENCH· / BAIL COVRT· / ·COVRT·OF·EXCHEQVER· / SKYLIGHT. (x 2) / ·COURT·OF·EQUITY· / (pencil) ATTENDANTS· / ON THE / LORD·CHIEF / BARON· / LORD·CHIEF· / ·BARON· / ·KINGS·REMEMBRANCER. dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 09/04/1824
    John Soane arch[itect]. / Lincoln's Inn Fields / 9th. April. 1824.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of buff, pink and blue, pen, grey pen, within octupal ruled wash border pricked for transfer on wove paper (587 x 470)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

This drawing shows the most radically reductivist scheme for accommodating the Select Committee's wishes, which proposed rearranging the disposition of Court rooms within the Law Courts and pushing the northern boundary of the site far behind the north front of Westminster Hall. There is no corresponding elevation for this scheme.

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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