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- 1765-74
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In 1765 Chamier purchased three estates in Surrey including Fennells Place and The Elms, and he immediately engaged Adam to make designs for alterations to both. At Fennells, Adam’s drawings proposed rebuilding entirely. This cannot have been executed as the early sixteenth-century house survives. Adam also made designs for a rustic dairy office which was not executed. Fennells Place is now a college called Fitznells.
See also: The Elms, Epsom, Surrey
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, index pp. 13, 65; I. Nairn, and N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Surrey, 1971, p. 224; D. King, The complete works of Robert & James Adam and unbuilt Adam, 2001, Volume I, p. 213, Volume II, pp. 125, 257; J. Brooke, 'Chamier, Anthony (1725-80), of Epsom, Surrey', History of Parliament online, 2012
Frances Sands, 2012
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).
Contents of Fennells Place, Ewell, Surrey: unexecuted designs for a house, interior works, and rustic offices, for Anthony Chamier, 1765-74 (14)
- Finished drawings for a scheme for the house, c1765-74, unexecuted (5)
- Preliminary design and finished drawings for a second scheme for the house, 1765-74, unexecuted (6)
- Preliminary design and finished drawing for a dairy, c1765-74, unexecuted (2)
- Finished drawing for a garden pavilion, c1765-74, unexecuted (1)