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[372] First design, New Law Courts, 1 April 1824
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Reference number
SM 53/3/59
Purpose
[372] First design, New Law Courts, 1 April 1824
Aspect
Plan of the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, with the original groundplan to New Palace Yard shown (in line) and proposed reductions in the building's footprint and revisions to ancillary accommodation indicated (in pink), unexecuted
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Outline of a Plan for altering the New Courts / agreeably to the direction of a Select Committee / of the House of Commons. / 25th. March 1824 / Design No. 1. / The Bail Court. / Water Closet. / Attendants / on the / Lord Chief / Justice / Lord Chief Justice's / Retiring Room / The Court of King's Bench / The Court of Common Pleas / Judges Retiring / Room. / The Court of Exchequer / The Court of Equity / Area / Staircase. / No. 1* Select Com[mittee]- / this draw[ing]. Made from / the directions of the P. [_] / on the 25 March 1824 & / presented to the Com[mitt].ee / Monday the 5th April. / B. Submitted / to Select Com[mittee] / 5 Ap[ril]: 1824 dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 01/04/1824
Lincolns Inn Fields / 1st. April. 1824.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of buff, blue and pink, within single ruled border pricked for transfer on wove paper (788 x 561)
Hand
Soane Office
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