Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
A Design for the New Courts at Westminster. / Scale of Feet / Westminster Hall. / Staircase. (x 4) / The Bail. Court. / Counsel. (x 3) / The Court of King's Bench. / Entrance (x 2) / Passage. (x 2) / Entrance for / The Lord Chief / Justice. / the Lord Chief Justice's / Retiring Room. / Water / Closet (x 6) / Corridor leading into Westminster Hall. / The Court of Equity. / The Court of Exchequer. / Vestibule. / Entrance into the / Court of Exchequer &c: / The Lord Chief / Baron's Retiring / Room. / Entrance / Hall. (x 2) / Corridor. (x 3) / The Court of Common Pleas. / Judges Retiring Room / Court of Common Pleas. / Area. (x 3) / The Vice-Chancellor's Court. / Attendants on / the Vice-Chancellor. / The Vice-Chancellor's / Retiring Room. / Entrance into / the Vice-Chancellor's / Court. &c: / The High Court of Chancery. / The Lord Chancellor's / Retiring Room. / Attendants on the / Lord Chancellor. Entrance into / the High Court of / Chancery &c. / Passage to the House of Lords & the House / of Commons. / Entrance into the High / Court of Chancery. / for the Lord Chancellor / Began laying Bricks / 30th. August. 1823. / Began laying bricks 28th. July 1823. / Began laying Bricks 24th. July 1823. / Began laying Bricks 1st. July 1823 / 15 March 1823 / This drawing was ap[prove]d. by Mr. Robinson, Sir Rich[ard] Giffard / Sir C[harles]. Long & Mr [Harries?] - app[rove]d / They afterwards went to the Kings Gal[lery]. / & the two new Courts - Sir R[ichard]. Giffard [_] the plan at the [_] & app[rove]d. / No. 14. (pencil) Jury. / The Kings Remembrancer / Attendants / on the / Lord Chief Baron / Custos Brevium / Court Keeper / Masters / in Chancery.
Signed and dated
- 1822
Lincolns Inn Fields. / 1822
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, wash, coloured washes of buff, pink and blue, pen within triple ruled wash border pricked for tansfer on wove paper (945 x 615)
Hand
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837), architect
This drawing is annotated in Soane's hand.
Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
J Whatman / 1821
Notes
The drawing is endorsed in Soane's hand, recording its approval at a meeting held at the Treasury on 15 March 1823. The drawing also records the phased construction campaign of the northern half of the New Law Courts.
Level
Drawing
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