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[12/10] Study for the Chapel at main-floor level, c.1735, including the colonnade on the west and the north end of the east range of Queen's Mary's Court at the east end
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Reference number
SM Drawer 47/7/1
Purpose
[12/10] Study for the Chapel at main-floor level, c.1735, including the colonnade on the west and the north end of the east range of Queen's Mary's Court at the east end
Aspect
Plan at colonnade and main-floor levels
Scale
Just over 12 ft to 1 inch
Inscribed
Vertically in graphite at right edge, [??] Greenwich Hospital the Chapel
Signed and dated
- c.1735
Medium and dimensions
Laid paper; 346 x 512
Hand
Unidentified hand in office of Thomas Ripley
Watermark
Strasbourg Lily / 4 / WR
Notes
A near-final study for the plan of the Chapel that was built between 1735 and 1751 but burnt in 1779. It shows the chancel recess framed with pairs of giant columns as in Malton and Bickham's undated engraving of the interior (Bold 2000, fig. 219) but square in plan, rather than semi-octagonal as built. Revisions in pencil indicate two additional steps up to chancel recess (deleted with a cross), and several small adjustments to the west wall of the chapel and to the interior of the vestibule.
Level
Drawing
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