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