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Reference number

SM 73/3/20

Purpose

[4] (recto) Preliminary design, 2 June 1789

Aspect

A Section through the Debtors ^ Rooms & Airing Court; the Men Felon Cells & the ^ Airing Court shewing & the Arcades and details of two types of window

Scale

to an approximate scale of 1/13 inch to one foot

Inscribed

as above, Norwich Castle, Bells from the Ctedral (Cathedral ?) / do ---- in to the / Turnkey's Room and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • June 2d 1789

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and warm sepia wash, hatched, on cartridge paper (360 x 511)

Hand

Soane

Notes

The east-west section has Soane's addition of the debtors' wing on the left and his re-modelling of the castle keep for the felons on the right. The felons' courtyard has an arcaded ground floor with three storeys above, all between the walls of the castle that rise 69 feet 6 inches and have a thickness of up to 12 feet 3 inches (the right-hand wall). The alternative window details for the felons' cells offer a segmental-headed window with simple rustication or a semicircular-headed window with more elaborate rustication; both are fitted with iron bars.

The verso of this drawing has a plan, laid-out wall elevations and details for a Drawing Room and on the bottom left-hand side of the cut-down drawing is inscribed Holmes. This is probably the Revd Mr Holmes of Gawdy Hall, Suffolk for whom Soane made alterations in 1789 (see Gawdy Hall, Sufffolk).

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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