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[12/23] Plan of completed design for attic storey of Queen Mary's Court, showing the accommodation and room distribution, with partitioning and cubicles.
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Reference number
SM volume 109/27
Purpose
[12/23] Plan of completed design for attic storey of Queen Mary's Court, showing the accommodation and room distribution, with partitioning and cubicles.
Aspect
Attic floor plan
Scale
20 feet to 1 inch
Inscribed
In brown ink by unidentified hand at top of sheet, Garrets of Queens Marys Court. / Boys 200; and with numbered scale bar; and at top right in C19 hand, 27.
Signed and dated
- Undated, but datable c. 1735
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey ink over graphite, with grey wash; on laid paper, with 18 mm backing strip on right-hand side, pasted on to guard of volume ; 508 x 338
Hand
Unidentified hand in office of Thomas Ripley
Watermark
Strasbourg Lily / 4
Notes
The accommodation for boys is limited to the garrets above the chapel and the south range; the roof space above the east range was too low for bed space, although the attic above the central pavilion was high enough for rooms with windows either side of a central corridor. Staircases in this pavilion provide access to the dormitories, and there is another, larger staircase at the west end of the south range.
Literature
Not in Wren Society
Level
Drawing
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