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- 1789
Other Years: Journal No 1 11 February 1789 'A Journey to Tawstock, near Barnstaple' 19 February 'Sent per Exeter Mail / Seven working drawings for / finishings to Gallery, / Bedrooms / & Staircases, on six sheets of / Cartridge paper ... more drawings ... 21 May sent 8 working drawings ... August 15 sent six drawings of finishings. .... In March 1791 received 140: 8 : 6.' In all, about 40 drawings were sent to Sir Bourchier Wrey between 19 Feb. 1789 and 18 May 1790. After initial visit by Soane, Lodder sent to measure up on 16 April 1789 and 'Lodder called at Quintoins about the glass' on 27 June 1789.
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Soane visited Tawstock on 11 February 1789. Entries in the office 'Bill Book' from June 1789 have the costs of carpenters' work for new roofs and flooring, and drawing 2 verso is a design for a small tower. However, Soane's role was mostly concerned with the construction of the top-lit staircase and with supplying the decorative details for the reception rooms and for the entrance. From 19 February 1789 to 18 May 1790 about forty drawings 'for finishings' were sent in batches. William Lodder (1757-1827) was an asistant in Soane's office from 1789 to 1796 and his name is mentioned in the office 'Journal No 1' in connection with a site visit and delivering drawings. In March 1791 Soane received payment of £140:8:6.
St Michael's independent school for boys was evacuated from Putney to Tawstock Court in July 1940, then the home of Sir Albany Bourchier Sherard Wrey, 13th Baronet (1861-1948). The school remained after the end of the War but closed in 2011.
Jill Lever
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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).