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Reference number

SM 53/3/60v

Purpose

[375] Memoranda, Select Committee Meeting, 6 April 1824

Aspect

Summary minutes taken by John Soane, during a meeting of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, 6 April 1824

Inscribed

Monday 6 Ap[ri]l 1824 / Select Comm[ittee] / Present / Sir C[harles]. Long / Mr. Bankes Sen[ior] in the Chair / Mr Herries / Mr Goulburn _ Col[one]l Trench _ Mr W[illiam] Bankes _ Mr. Agar Ellis _ Mr. Wi[lliams] It was remarked by one / of the Com[mitte]e that Sir C[harles]. Long / idea (which by the way was J[ames]. Wyatt / & came to Sir C[harles] L[ong] thro[ugh] Jeff[rey]. [Wyatt] – of / making the Court Chapels to / the Hall was a good thought! The Area now occupied by the Court of Kings. Bench etc / to be railed in & [planned?] / Mr W[illiam]. Bankes Mr. B[ankes] Sen[io]r. observed there / was to be a passage / between W[estminster]. Hall & the Court one entrance into / that passage would have been sufficient – / At last it was settled for me / to prepare two elevations for / a Gothic front one with a small / Oct[agonal] Tower & the other with Sq[uar]e Tower etc. A level line from the N[orth]w[est]. Tower of Stone Building to be drawn from that Tower to the front Wall of / I Mr. Soane have seen many such lines in build[in]g. of the Court and [it] / would be scarcely visible Mr Bankes Sen[ior] to send Lord Harrowby / occasion _ Mr. Bankes & Mr. Williams again said no place could be more conveniant / Mr. Bankes S[e]n[io]r thought the passage between W[estmins]ter. Hall & the Courts should be / & the Courts [_] home to the Wall of West[minster] Hall (what business of the / [could] want a front.

Signed and dated

  • 06/04/1824
    Monday 6 Ap[ri]l 1824

Medium and dimensions

Pen, on wove paper (782 x 569)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837), architect

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

The transcription of this text has much benefitted from the assistance of Sue Palmer.

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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