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[43-45] Survey drawings of the Stone Building (3)
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM (43) 51/5/50 (44) 51/5/52 (45) 51/5/47
Purpose
[43-45] Survey drawings of the Stone Building (3)
Aspect
43 Basement and ground floor plans
44 First floor and attics plans
45 Longitudinal Section through Record Office &c
Scale
(43-45) bar scale of 2 inches to 10 feet (1/5 inch to 1 foot)
Inscribed
43 Jury Rooms, Records & Writs and dimensions given
44 Augmentations Offices, Mr Hewitts Appartments, Flat (twice), Roof (twice), Gutter (twice), (pencil) Attic, calculations and dimensions given
45 as above, Grand Inquest Jury, Records & Writs, Augmentation Office, Mr Hewitt and dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
(43) Pen, sepia and burnt Sienna washes, pricked for transfer on stout wove paper with one fold (704 x 530) pen, sepia, burnt Sienna and blue washes, pricked for transfer on stout wove paper with one fold mark (667 x 533) pen, sepia, blue, burnt Sienna, olive green and pink washes on stout wove paper (440 x 530)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
The 'Stone Building' was in St Margaret Street within Palace of Westminster. Designed in a Palladian style 'probably' by John Vardy (1718-1765), it was begun in 1755-8 in order to house the records of the Law Courts, extended for the Ordnance Office in 1766-9 and completed by a corner pavilion and five-bay return by Kenton Couse (1721-1790) in 1768-70 so as to provide better accommodation for the Commons. (M. H. Port, The Palace of Westminster ... 1834, 2011, p.13).
The Select Comittee of 1830 dealing with the library and committee rooms recommended that the two committee rooms above the library be taken into the library and 'the Augmentation Offices in the Stone Building should be moved upstairs in order to provide space for additional committee rooms. These alterations were not executed.' (King's Works, VI, p.530).
The Augmentation Office, a sub-department of the Exchequer, was responsible for managing all the lands confiscated by the Crown since the reign of Henry VII, and it came into its own when later charged with accounting for the royal revenues arising from the Dissolution of the Monasteries.' (C. Shenton, The Day Parliament burned down, 2012, p.174)
The Select Comittee of 1830 dealing with the library and committee rooms recommended that the two committee rooms above the library be taken into the library and 'the Augmentation Offices in the Stone Building should be moved upstairs in order to provide space for additional committee rooms. These alterations were not executed.' (King's Works, VI, p.530).
The Augmentation Office, a sub-department of the Exchequer, was responsible for managing all the lands confiscated by the Crown since the reign of Henry VII, and it came into its own when later charged with accounting for the royal revenues arising from the Dissolution of the Monasteries.' (C. Shenton, The Day Parliament burned down, 2012, p.174)
Level
Drawing
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