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[12/14] Finished design for a new entrance to a temporary infirmary in the basement of the hall range, c.1735
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Reference number
SM Drawer 43/10/16
Purpose
[12/14] Finished design for a new entrance to a temporary infirmary in the basement of the hall range, c.1735
Aspect
Elevation
Scale
10 ft to 3 ¼ inches
Inscribed
By John James in pen and brown ink at right edge of sheet, Doorcase & Window / North front of Infier / -mery
Signed and dated
- c.1735
Medium and dimensions
Laid paper; 200 x 323
Hand
John James
Watermark
Coat of arms with rampant lion and LIBERTATE PRO PATRIA in frame of disc
Notes
This otherwise unrecorded scheme is for an entrance to a temporary infirmary in the basement of the hall range. In 1743 additional infirmary accommodation was found in the lower storey of the south range of Queen Mary Court (Bold 2000, pp. 164-65). The proposal drawing shows a new door surround in the context of an adjacent window. The door was in the left-hand of the two bays at the west end of the Great Hall but was removed later in the century, presumably when the Infirmary transferred permanently to the new building by James Stuart, completed in the late 1760s (ibid., pp. 207-12). The handwriting and ink of the inscription, and type of scale bar, compare closely with those by James on his two studies for the north elevation of the chapel, [12/12 and 13])
Level
Drawing
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