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[381] Design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, 7 April 1824
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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.
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk