[180] Finished drawing, New Law Courts, 22 October 1822

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Southern Range - Vice Chancellor's Court, Court of Chancery & Lord Chancellor's Room, 1822-29 (82)
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Reference number

SM 53/2/72

Purpose

[180] Finished drawing, New Law Courts, 22 October 1822

Aspect

Plan of the main (ground) floor of the New Law Courts, showing the area between Westminster Hall, the eastern range of The Stone Building and the central block of the latter, including the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the Court of Chancery, and the accommodation for the Lord Chancellor, with elevation detail of floor levels, not as executed

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₄ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Foundations;- New Law Courts. / Scale of Feet / The Vice-Chancellor's Court. / Attendants on the Vice-Chancellor. / The Vice-Chancellor's / Retiring Room. / W[ater]. C[loset]. / The Court of Chancery. / The Lord Chancellor's / Robing Room. / Attendants on the / Lord Chancellor. / Barristers Room / Range / Court of Chancery. / Entrance Hall / for the Lord / Chancellor. / These dimensions are all taken from the intended floor of the new / Courts, that is, at 2': 6" above the present floor of Westminster Hall. / Level of New Courts / Level of W[estminste]^r. Hall. / York Ledger. dimensions given

Signed and dated

22/10/1822
22^nd: October 1822.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, wash, coloured washes of pink, yellow and blue, pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper (728 x 522)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt / 1817

Notes

As in drawings SM 53/2/69 and SM 53/2/71, the corridor running along the south side of the Lord Chancellor's accommodation was not built with the open colonnade shown here, and the passage turned through a curved corner. The ceilings of the Vice Chancellor's Court and the Court of Chancery are lightly sketched in pencil. The heights of arched openings into the respective Court rooms from the Public Corridor are also sketched in pen. The footings for the ceiling of the Lord Chancellor's Robing Room are also shown (washed in yellow). There are numerous erasures and redrawings for entrances and the internal walls of the Vice Chancellor's Court.

Literature

Sawyer, 1999: p 530, footnote 1565

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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