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Reference number

SM volume 109/22

Purpose

[12/18] Record of the ground floor of the completed design of Queen Mary's Court, to illustrate the accommodation and room distribution

Aspect

Ground plan

Scale

20 feet to 1 inch

Inscribed

In ink by unidentified hand at top of sheet, Principal Story of Queen Mary's Court / Private men 248; and with numbered scale at bottom of sheet; and in C19 hand at top and bottom on right, 22.

Signed and dated

  • undated by datable c.1735

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey ink over graphite under-drawing with grey wash and a sketched addition in graphite; brown ink for inscription; on laid paper, laid down, with reinforcing strip at top edge

Hand

Unidentified draughtsman in office of Thomas Ripley

Watermark

Strasbourg Lily / 4

Notes

See notes for [12/16]. Although the ground floor, or Principal Story, is stated to accommodate 248 men, only 232 cubicles are shown on the plan: 136 cubicles in east range and 96 in south range. There is, however, enough space for additional beds, e.g. on west sides of halls at eastern ends of the north and south ranges. The plan shows the amount of bed space gained by rationalising the plan of the long range at the back of the court. On the equivalent part of the plan of the King William Court, the small intermediate blocks are merely passages between the central block and the north and south ranges. Steps up to the main floor of the chapel have been drawn within the octagonal hall. This is an indication that the plan is a record of a completed design not worked out in all its details, rather than a survey of the built fabric.

Literature

Not in Wren Society

Level

Drawing

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