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Presentation drawings for entrance hall in a Gothic style, 25 January 1798 (2)

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Soane visited Lord Abercorn on 26 January 1798 with drawings showing a design for a 'Gothic hall' consisting of a plan, elevation and perspective view, as in drawings 136 and 137.

The hall covers the entire front of the old house spanning between the east wing and the offices (the office screen wall is shown as demolished). The castellated projection has two buttressed canted wings covered with crocketed pyramidal roofs, to either side of a centre range with a large Tudor arch. The existing house rises up behind the single-storey hall, its exterior left unchanged and thus somewhat clashing with the distinct entrance feature.

The interior of the entrance hall (drawing 137) has shallow rib vaulting with foliate bosses. The three vaults meet the walls in semicircular arches, each with a drop-arched window or door centred below.

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