[413] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, after 29 May 1824

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [413] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, after 29 May 1824

Browse

Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Second Scheme, 1821-29 (345)
      - Northern Range - Court of King's Bench, 1823-29 (207)
        Select Committee Revisions, 1824-29 (79)
        Alternative Number Four: Forward Block, April-June 1824 (27)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM 16/7/6 (previously P405)

Purpose

[413] Alternative design, Westminster Hall and New Law Courts, after 29 May 1824

Aspect

Perspective of the exterior of the New Law Courts, viewed from New Palace Yard looking south east, showing Westminster Hall, the Court of King's Bench and its ancillary accommodation, and the linking range to Westminster Hall, rendered in Gothic, with curved corners containing entrances set between buttresses, with the same idiom used for the façade to St Margaret's Street, as far as the junction with The Stone Building's northern flanking range, with distant view of the Royal Entrance to the House of Lords, unexecuted

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

after 29/05/1824
dated in accordance with drawing SM 53/8/57

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, coloured washes, pen, on wove paper (unframed dimensions, 1060 x 712)

Hand

Gandy, Joseph Michael (1771--1843), draughtsman

Verso

not inspected

Notes

This drawing is clearly worked up from the alternative Gothic scheme for the Court of King's Bench façade shown in SM 53/8/57. It is also worthy of note that this view records the dormer windows Soane introduced into the roof of Westminster Hall during its restoration of 1819 - 1823.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Sir John Soane 1753-1837: An Exhibition of Drawings, Kenwood House, London, May - September 1956

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

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).