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Reference number

SM (68) 82/1/43 (69) 82/1/51 (70) 82/1/33

Purpose

Designs with a taller attic storey, May 1830 (3)

Aspect

68 Elevation of the north front and section showing the heights of the floors; (verso) unidentified design for a lantern or skylight 69 Elevation of the east front 70 Perspective from the Park

Scale

(68) bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot (69) bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

68 (in Soane's hand) Entab[lature] / 22d May and some dimensions given 69 (in Soane's hand) Final Except Chimnies

Signed and dated

  • May 1830
    (68) (in Soane's hand) Friday 21 May 1830 (69) (in Soane's hand) Sunday / 23d May 1830 / L.I.F. (70) (in Soane's hand) Lincolns Inn Fields / 24 May 1830 and (pencil) May 23d 1830

Medium and dimensions

(68) Pen, sepia, yellow ochre, black and pink washes, (verso: pen and pink wash) pricked for transfer with single ruled border on wove paper (367 x 423) (69) pen, pencil, sepia, yellow ochre, grey and pink washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (475 x 507) (70) pencil, sepia and black washes, pricked for transfer with single ruled border on laid paper (292 x 465)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

(69) Smith & Allnutt 1823 (70) W Weatherley 1829

Notes

Henry Bankes (1757-1834), MP for Corfe Castle, proposed raising the attic storey to 11 feet 6 inches (from 8 feet). Soane and Bankes had had a previous run-in over the Court of King's Bench in March 1824 which lead to that building being redesigned in a Gothic style. Drawings 68-70 show designs incorporating the new, higher attic with the windows in the cornice on drawing 69. Drawings 69 and 70 also show a new design for the chimneys with spiral detailing and a parapet with a hipped effect. In pencil on drawing 69 is the outline of one of the chimney flues.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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