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[12/17] Survey drawing of the ground floor of King William's Court, showing the accommodation layout
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Reference number
SM 109/21
Purpose
[12/17] Survey drawing of the ground floor of King William's Court, showing the accommodation layout
Aspect
Plan of main floor (i.e. raised ground floor level)
Scale
20 feet to 1 inch
Inscribed
In ink in unidentified hand, Principal Floor of King Will:ms Court / Private men 134; and in C19 hand at top and bottom right, 21.; and with numbered scale at bottom of sheet
Signed and dated
- Undated, but datable c.1735
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey ink over graphite under-drawing, with grey wash; on laid paper, laid down, extended by 20 mm with backing strip at bottom edge; 500 X 364
Hand
Unidentified hand in office of Thomas Ripley
Watermark
IV
Notes
See notes for [12/15]. Only 62 cubicles are drawn in the rooms on the south side. The other 112 men would presumably have been accommodated in the rooms in the central range and in the spaces not shown with cubicles in the south range.
The plan provides external staircases at the north and south ends of the colonnades. These are proposed additions to the existing fabric, since by then the side staircase on the north side of the Great Hall, shown on the model of 1699, had already been built. The staircase arrangement on the north side of this plan appears on [12/1] (c.1728) and [12/8] (c.1735). A pre-construction plan of the main floor of Queen Mary's Court at the National Maritime Museum (Wren Society, VI, pl. 30, bottom) has a matching scheme for staircase platforms at both ends.
The plan provides external staircases at the north and south ends of the colonnades. These are proposed additions to the existing fabric, since by then the side staircase on the north side of the Great Hall, shown on the model of 1699, had already been built. The staircase arrangement on the north side of this plan appears on [12/1] (c.1728) and [12/8] (c.1735). A pre-construction plan of the main floor of Queen Mary's Court at the National Maritime Museum (Wren Society, VI, pl. 30, bottom) has a matching scheme for staircase platforms at both ends.
Literature
Not in Wren Society
Level
Drawing
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