[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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  - Revised final scheme under Thomas Ripley, 1729-58

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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.

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Not in Wren Society

Level

Drawing

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