[255] Survey, New Law Courts, 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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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)
      - Central Range - Court of Common Pleas, Court of Exchequer, Court of Equity & Bail Court, 1822-26 (37)
        Second Phase - Site, 1823-24 (6)

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Reference number

SM 53/1/1

Purpose

[255] Survey, New Law Courts, 1824

Aspect

Plan of the perimeter of the northern range of the New Law Courts, bordered by Westminster Hall, The Stone Building, St Margaret's Street and New Palace Yard, with survey lines to various corners (in dashed line)

Scale

bar scale of ¹/₆ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Site of the Court of King's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Bail Court ^&c: dimensions given

Signed and dated

1824
1824

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper (738 x 521)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Notes

The survey measurements across the site were taken from the north-west corner of the central block of The Stone Building and the south-west corner of the pavilion tower on the latter building's northern flank. They relate to the corners of The Stone Building's central flank prior to Soane's additions, and the northernmost buttress and north-west tower stairturret of Westminster Hall.

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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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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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