[138] Survey, New Law Courts, after 28 September 1822

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  - London: Palace of Westminster: The New Law Courts, surveys and designs, 1820-32 (507)
    - New Law Courts - Site Plans, 1822 (4)

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Reference number

SM P282-xii

Purpose

[138] Survey, New Law Courts, after 28 September 1822

Aspect

Site plan of the New Law Courts, including the south end of Westminster Hall, the main floor of The Stone Building, and the buttresses of the Hall, as extant, with unrelated preliminary elevations of parapet caps (pencil)

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

after 28/09/1822
dated in accordance with known building campaign

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (547 x 376)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Verso

Plan and elevation of the screen wall for The Bank of England.

Notes

The sheet has been closely cropped along its left edge, severing the plan halfway through the central block of The Stone Building. It records the site following the clerance of existing structures, which had been completed by 28 September 1822. The exposed buttresses of Westminster Hall are clearly visible, and their is no evidence of preliminary designs for the New Law Courts.

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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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