[135] Presentation drawing of an alternative design for the entrance hall, 2 January 1798

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  - Bentley Priory, Harrow, London: (executed) two additions, outbuildings and an entrance hall addition for John James Hamilton, later 9th Earl, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1788-1799, 1805 (178)
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Reference number

SM volume 59/88

Purpose

[135] Presentation drawing of an alternative design for the entrance hall, 2 January 1798

Aspect

Two perspectives and two ground floor plans

Scale

bar scale of 1/20 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(upper case) The Marquis of Abercorn / Two designs for / The proposed entrance at Bentley Priory, and plans labelled (Soane): Porte-cochère, Hall, frieze (twice), Old Hall, Porte-cochère, Hall &c / 34 by 20 and dimensions given

Signed and dated

2 January 1798
L.I.F. Jan: 2^d1798

Medium and dimensions

pencil, pen and coloured washes on laid paper (451 x 310)

Hand

Seward, Henry Hake (1778--1848), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (c. 1798-1848, pupil 1794-1808), Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1800) and Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Henry Hake Seward (c. 1798-1848, pupil 1794-1808), Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1800) and Soane
Henry Joseph Good (1775 - 1857), draughtsman
Henry Hake Seward (c. 1798-1848, pupil 1794-1808), Henry Joseph Good (1775-1857, pupil 1795-1800) and Soane

Watermark

I Taylor

Notes

Drawing 135 has two designs for an entrance hall. The left-hand side of the drawing shows a square-plan hall measuring 24 by 24 feet and forming a link, as in drawings 133 and 134, between the porte-cochère and the front door of the existing house. The hall is covered with a pendentive dome supported at four corners by fluted Doric columns. The design establishes a series of segmental arched entrances through which the visitor may pass. The right-hand side of the drawing has a rectangular-plan hall with projecting apsidal alcoves on two sides and arched entrances at the ends. The room has a flat ceiling with coved edges decorated in festoons.

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