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[3] Survey drawing taken by Thomas Dove, 1788
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Reference number
SM 73/3/5
Purpose
[3] Survey drawing taken by Thomas Dove, 1788
Aspect
The East Front of the Castle and Shire House in the City of Norwich
Scale
scale bar of 1/9 inch to one foot
Inscribed
as above
Signed and dated
- Thos Dove / 1788
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and Indian red washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper, red sealing wax on bottom corners (440 x 599)
Hand
Thomas Dean, surveyor
Watermark
J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W
Notes
This survey drawing was made by Thomas Dove, of whom not much is presently known. Norfolk County Record Office has two drawings signed by him and dated 1786 for a new bridewell (prison, house of correction) and a further drawing for alterations and additions to the existing bridewell after a fire (NCR case 1be/100-102). These last were carried out by Dove; the bridewell is now the Bridewell Museum in Bridewell Alley, Norwich.
Soane's office "Journal No1' has an entry for 13 May 1789: 'surveyed Castle'. Presumably he took with him Dove's survey drawings, no doubt originally made for the Norwich City Corporation.
This drawing and SM 73/3/4 of Dove's survey have on their versos copies of Soane's elevations (cf. SM 73/3/8 'Entrance Front' and 'Longitudinal Elevation' dated 6 June 1789). While the drawing paper is of the type used by Soane's office at this time, it is presumed (from the dating) that Soane's office re-used Dove's drawings rather than the other way round. Both drawings show the keep to measure about 90 by 95 feet and 60 (sic) feet high. The ground floor of the four-storey building is entirely given over as a prison and there are 'Stairs to the Upper Gaol'. The walls are between nine and twelve feet thick including two internal walls towards the south-east. To the right is the two-storey, embattled front elevation of Brettingham's Shire Hall stepped back by about 15 feet from the keep.
Soane's office "Journal No1' has an entry for 13 May 1789: 'surveyed Castle'. Presumably he took with him Dove's survey drawings, no doubt originally made for the Norwich City Corporation.
This drawing and SM 73/3/4 of Dove's survey have on their versos copies of Soane's elevations (cf. SM 73/3/8 'Entrance Front' and 'Longitudinal Elevation' dated 6 June 1789). While the drawing paper is of the type used by Soane's office at this time, it is presumed (from the dating) that Soane's office re-used Dove's drawings rather than the other way round. Both drawings show the keep to measure about 90 by 95 feet and 60 (sic) feet high. The ground floor of the four-storey building is entirely given over as a prison and there are 'Stairs to the Upper Gaol'. The walls are between nine and twelve feet thick including two internal walls towards the south-east. To the right is the two-storey, embattled front elevation of Brettingham's Shire Hall stepped back by about 15 feet from the keep.
Literature
N. Pevsner and B. Wilson, Norfolk 1: Norwich and north-east, 2nd ed.,1997, pp.256-60
Level
Drawing
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