Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [58] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810

Browse

  • image SM 67/5/6

Reference number

SM 67/5/6

Purpose

[58] Revised design using part of Lord Yarborough's house, June 1810

Aspect

Two elevations Chelsea Hospital / South Front of the new Infirmary and a section, with some alterations by Soane

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, labelled The Infirmary, Present level of the Earth, Centre of Wall (twice), Stone & Brick, Stone (three times), (faint pencil) Chelsea Hospital / June 19th 1810, and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • L.I. Fields 13 June 1810

Hand

Soane office, Soane

Notes

This design could be labelled 'design B' as by this point Soane had succumbed to the Board of Commissioners' wishes that the new Infirmary should involve the conversion of at least part of Yarborough House. Thus as Margaret Richardson writes, the new design 'consisted of a long range of buildings running east-west from which two wings extended south', as shown in SM 67/5/9.

This drawing shows a similar elevation to SM 67/5/2, with a pedimented attic-pedestal framed by lions on each side (added in Soane's hand).

Literature

M. Richardson, 'Soane in Chelsea', pp.45-51, The Chelsea Society Report, 1992

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk