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[438] Record drawing, New Law Courts, 1826
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 53/2/31
Purpose
[438] Record drawing, New Law Courts, 1826
Aspect
Plan of the main (ground) floor of the New Courts, with the façade to New Palace Yard revised according to the directions of the Select Committee (shown in deep pink), and the internal arrangements reconfigured accordingly, as executed
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Plan of part of the New Law Courts at Westminster _ / The Bail Court. / WC (x 3) / Baron's Clerks. / The Court of Exchequer / Tribunal / The Court of Common Pleas. / Tribunal / The Judges Retiring / Room / Court. / Keeper / The Court of Kings Bench. / Tribunal. / The Court of Equity. / The Judges Retiring Room / (Court of Excheuqer.) / The Retiring Room / for the Judges. / Water Closet &c / Staircase (x 2) / Judges Clerks / Room. / Hall / Passage / The King's Rembrancer / Masters in Equity. / Serjeant's Room / Judges Clerks Rooms
Signed and dated
- 1826
1826._
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, wash, coloured washes of buff, pink and blue, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (767 x 642)
Hand
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt / 1820
Notes
The sheet has been closely cropped on all sides except its lower edge, and extended with an affixed strip (254mm x 642mm) along its right edge.
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