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  • image SM 53/3/55

Reference number

SM 53/3/55

Purpose

[381] Design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 7 April 1824

Aspect

Plan of Westminster Hall and the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, with the original groundplan to New Palace yard shown (in grey) and proposed reductions in the building's footprint indicated (in pink), with a square tower to New Palace Yard, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sketch of a Design for the Alteration of the new Law Courts at Westminster / made to meet the ideas of a Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed / on the 23rd. March. 1824. / ·KING’S·BENCH· / ·BAIL·COVRT· / ·EXCHEQVER· / ·EQVITY·

Signed and dated

  • 07/04/1824
    7th. April 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of pink and blue, pen, grey pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (336 x 558)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

The position of the square tower at the north-west corner of the building has been moved further to the south east during the drawing process. A variant proposal without a tower is shown in SM 53/3/56.

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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