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  • image SM volume 76/72

Reference number

SM volume 76/72

Purpose

[178] Record drawing, 8 August 1815

Aspect

Chelsea Hospital, Plan and Sections of the Oven

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • August 8th. 1815

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows a plan and two sections of the Bakehouse oven. The plan indicates a clay fire-brick moulding around the edge, with a metal grid in its centre and (presumably) a brick surround (as brick was a particularly fire resistant material). The two sections also show the three materials (brick, fire-resistant clay and metal). There would presumably have been a fire underneath the main body of the oven with a chimney flue running up the back, to the central chimney stack.

Level

Drawing

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

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