[23] Design for the galleries, St Peter's, Walworth, London, c.1823

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    - Designs and memorandum for the 1823 scheme, St Peter's, Walworth, London, 1823 (14)

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Reference number

SM 54/6/14

Purpose

[23] Design for the galleries, St Peter's, Walworth, London, c.1823

Aspect

Plan of the galleries in the church, being five-by-nine bays. On the principal front the central three bays are recessed behind a screen four free-standing columns, flanked by single-bay towers containing staircases. Similarly, the rear front has the central three bays recessed, and flanked by single-bay towers. The north side of the nave shows the arrangement of pews on the gallery. On the west end we see the organ behind a balustrade and flanked by pews

Scale

scale of 1 ²/₅ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

N^o4 / Newington Church / Plan Showing the Galleries / Copy / William Craib. Clerk of Works / Organ and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

c.1823
datable to 1823

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, red pen, pink and yellow washes, and pricked for transfer on wove paper (685 x 540)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman

Verso

Three faint pencil drawings, one of an arch, and two showing a door frame with architrave

Notes

Here, the gallery level is largely similar to the 1822 version (SM 54/4/6); but the most notable differences involve the arrangement and number of pews in both the gallery where the row of pews has been reduced in this version to four from five in SM 54/4/6 and the organ gallery sees a different seating arrangement, where the pews have also been reduced from nine rows to eight; the latter which may be caused by the enlargement and centring of the organ within the gallery itself. Otherwise, access is also enhanced via two internal staircases at each end of the colonnade which serves as small ante-rooms to the towers at each end.

Literature

John, 2003, p. 51, fig. 43

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