[22] Design for a church, 1766, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Rt Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie: unexecuted designs for a castle, a tower and a church, 1766 (26)
    - Designs for a church
      - Preliminary designs and designs for a church, 1766, unexecuted (7)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 44/88

Purpose

[22] Design for a church, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the south front of a two-storey, nine-bay church, with a pitched roof, with acroteria on the west end, and with a small spire on the east end, with a central, single-storey, three-bay bow, with a conical roof, and a central door, forming a porch entrance, and this is flanked by half height windows on the ground storey, and by arched windows on the first storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Church for The Right Honorable Stewart Mackenzie (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

1766
datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (478 x 285)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith and William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

LVG surmounted by cartouche with garter and surmounted by fleur de lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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