[8] Design giving a plan and elevation for a gateway and lodges house, 1776, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Knowsley Park, Lancashire: unexecuted designs for a lodge, and alterations and additions to the house, and executed designs for a dairy, for the 12th Earl of Derby, 1776-77 (9)
    - Alternative preliminary design, design and finished drawings for a gateway and lodges, 1776-77, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 51/76

Purpose

[8] Design giving a plan and elevation for a gateway and lodges house, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a crenellated gateway and lodges, with a central recessed arched entrance, flanked by projecting lodges, with pepper-pot turrets on the inside corners, and containing windows into lodge rooms, and with a one-and-a-half-storey tower in each corner, two of which contain spiral staircases to the roof of the lodges

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of a Gate for Knowsley Park in Lancashire one of the Seats of / The Earl of Derby (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

22/06/1776
Adelphi June 22d. 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (384 x 497)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 245
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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