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Designs for the frontage of the new buildings including the Home Office, March 1825 (4)
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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 (152) 49/3/38 (153) 49/3/37 (154) 49/3/36 (155) 49/3/35
Purpose
Designs for the frontage of the new buildings including the Home Office, March 1825 (4)
Aspect
152 Front elevation
153 Front elevation
154 Front elevation
155 Front elevation; (verso) rough preliminary drawing for a perspective of the Commissioners' new churches
Inscribed
152 Downing Street / 7' March 1825 Taken to The Chancellor of the Exchequer / Mr Herries / Surveyor Gen[era]l, Directed to continue this part and the return up Downing Street / with as much expedition as possible, Altered agreeably to the directions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, labelled (pencil): 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
153 Balustrade / added July 1824
155 Copy dated 7 March 1825, (pencil) Copy date 7 March 1825
Signed and dated
- (152) 7 March 1825 (154) as above ('Copy dated 7 March 1825')
Medium and dimensions
(152-155) Pencil, sepia and black washes on wove paper (312 x 537, 311 x 562, 312 x 560, 311 x 562)
Hand
(152-155) Edward Davis (1802-52, pupil 1824-26)
Watermark
(152) Smith & Allnutt 1820 (154) 1821
Notes
At some point in early 1825 it was decided to include the Home Office in the rebuilding of the offices on Whitehall and Soane was directed to incorporate this into the new building. The former Home Office had been located in the Old Tennis Court building to the north of the Treasury Passage (q.v. drawing 5).
Drawings 152-155 show Soane's initial designs for extending the Board of Trade building further northwards along Whitehall to Dover House, now (2013) the Scotland Office, which can be seen to the right of drawing 152. The new designs are for a 23-bay building with two entrances. Drawing 152, which was 'taken to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [and] Mr Herries', shows four alternative designs for the attic storey. Drawing 155 is a copy of drawing 154.
According to a note on drawing 152, Soane was directed to continue the part of the building containing the Privy Council Offices and 'the return up Downing Street with as much expedition as possible.'
On the verso of drawing 155 is a very rough preliminary drawing by Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843) for a perspective of one of the new Commissioners' churches.
Drawings 152-155 show Soane's initial designs for extending the Board of Trade building further northwards along Whitehall to Dover House, now (2013) the Scotland Office, which can be seen to the right of drawing 152. The new designs are for a 23-bay building with two entrances. Drawing 152, which was 'taken to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [and] Mr Herries', shows four alternative designs for the attic storey. Drawing 155 is a copy of drawing 154.
According to a note on drawing 152, Soane was directed to continue the part of the building containing the Privy Council Offices and 'the return up Downing Street with as much expedition as possible.'
On the verso of drawing 155 is a very rough preliminary drawing by Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843) for a perspective of one of the new Commissioners' churches.
Level
Drawing
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