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  • image SM volume 76/70

Reference number

SM volume 76/70

Purpose

[162] Record (detail) drawing, c. June 1815

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital, Elevation of the Chimney Shaft at the Clerk of the Works House

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • datable to c. June 1815

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing and SM volume 76/71 show the designs for two types of chimney stack used on the Clerk of Works' House.

The drawing shows a design for the twin chimney stack that was repeated at various positions around the roof (see SM volume 76/74, SM volume 79/1, SM volume 79/2, SM volume 79/3, SM volume 79/4 and SM volume 79/5).

The design consists of a pedestal-stack, surmounted by two shafts placed at a 45 degree angle to the pedestal. These were each crowned by an urn-like chimney pot. The chimney pots were heavily criticised as 'rasin jars' by Soane's son, George, in The Champion on 10 September 1815 (only shortly after the completion of the Clerk of Works' House). The article referred to the Clerk of Works' House on which 'ranged in military array, appears a little regiment of chimney-pots with white heads, like so many well grown cauliflowers'.

Literature

G. Soane, article in The Champion, 10 September 1815

Level

Drawing

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