[1] Working drawings for floor plan and back and front elevations

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  - Winchester (Hants): Hyde Close, working drawings for an academy for the Revd Mr Charles Richards, 1795 (4)

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Reference number

SM 47/1/76 recto and verso

Purpose

[1] Working drawings for floor plan and back and front elevations

Aspect

Floor plan (verso) elevation and section/elevation

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

The Rev^d M^r Richards, AAAA Pipes to carry the Water from / the Roof, BB pipes to carry the Water from / the Entrance, AAAA, BB and dimensions given (verso) The Rev^d M^r Richards, A This is to be left open to the Floor in / Building but afterwards bricked up

Signed and dated

00/06/1795
(copy) Lincolns Inn Fields June 1795 (verso) as recto

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown madder wash on wove paper with two fold marks (532 x 681) (verso) pen, sepia, brown madder and blue washes, shaded

Hand

The office Day Book has entries under an academy for the Reverend Mr Richards on 25, 26 and 27 June 1796. Meyer, Jeans, Seward, Good and Provis are all listed as making drawings. That is Frederick Meyer (1775 - ?), pupil April 1791 - 1796; Thomas Jeans (c.1775 - 1866), pupil August 1792 - 25 August 1797; Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848), pupil May 1794 - September 1808; Henry Joseph Good (1775 - 1857), pupil January 1795 - January 1799; and Henry Provis (1760 - 1830), clerk July 1791 - February 1802. On 27 June, 10 drawings and 4 fair drawings were 'sent on the Evening Mail', the four pupils having spent the day making those drawings.

Notes

The plan shows the building as 63 feet 9 inches long and 33 feet 9 inches across. The entrance porch has a stair on a horseshoe plan that gives on to a semicircular balcony that is 10 feet wide. (Verso) The instruction 'to leave open to the Floor in / Building but afterwards bricked up' refers to a single, full length window at the end of the building. This was well lit from eight side windows but these were not full length and the single tall , unglazed window at the end would have provided easy access for the workmen.

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Drawing

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