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[42] Design for the bell frame within the tower, St Peter's, Walworth, London, 19 March 1824
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Reference number
SM 54/6/32
Purpose
[42] Design for the bell frame within the tower, St Peter's, Walworth, London, 19 March 1824
Aspect
Section of a square bell tower. Above the base, the tower is flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The interior is rectangular with an arched top. In front there is an arrangement of timbers forming a frame to support the bell. Above is a circular opening for the clock face and below the outline of a louvre window. There is a small faded pencil design towards the left edge of the paper
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Bell Frame for St.Peters Church Walworth
Signed and dated
- March 19th 1824
March 19th. 1824
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of pink and brown, pricked for transfer on wove paper (556 x 435)
Hand
Probably Bailey, George (1792--1860), draughtsman
The uppercase -B and -M and lower case h and long cross-bar to the lower case -t especially, match Bailey's hand in the Soane Office Day Books and other documentation
The uppercase -B and -M and lower case h and long cross-bar to the lower case -t especially, match Bailey's hand in the Soane Office Day Books and other documentation
Watermark
J BUDGEN 1818
Notes
There are no designs for the actual bells at St. Peter's, Walworth. Soane Private Correspondence (SM X .C. 2. 20) from 11 September 1823, records estimates for weight of eight church bells which could be hung in a steeple, from the bell founder Thomas Mears, who was first a partner in Lester, Lack & Chapman, a bell foundry in Whitechapel which could trace its roots back to at least 1570 (when it belonged to Robert Mot) and then taking over the firm in 1767 and remained in the Mears family until 1865.
Level
Drawing
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