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48 Plan of ground floor
49 Plan of ground floor
50 Alternative plan of ground floor
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(50) (in a Roman label) Plan of a Design to Render the House of Lords / and the Rooms and Offices Appertaining thereto more Commodious, labelled: as drawings 47-49; rooms labelled: Arcade, The Vestibule, Attendants / on the Lords, Robing Room / for the Lords, The / Earl Marshall, Council / attending / the House, Attendants / on the Prince, Robing Room for / the Prince of Wales, The Entrance / for his Majesty / and the rest of / the Royal Family, Robing Room for / the Duke of Glocester / and the rest / of the Royal Family, Attendants / on the Duke, Attendants / on his Majesty, Witnesses / attending / the House, The Serjeant / at Arms, Black / Rod, Spectators (twice), Robing Room for His Majesty, Court, Attendants / on the / Lord Chamberlain, Committee Room, The / Lord Chancellor, Attendants / on the / Lord Chancellor, Court, The / House of Lords, Lobby / of the / House of Lords, The / Painted Chamber, The Court / of Parliament, Conference Room, The Bishops, Archbishops, Clerk's Room, Assistant Clerk / of Parliament, The Clerk / of Parliament; dimensions given
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- (47) John Soane Archt 1794
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See also drawings 102 to 107, interior perspectives filed with these plans (71/1/1-6) and probably in the same office hand.
Drawing 50 has the same entrance arrangement placed southwards as drawings 36 to 44. The five-bay elevation to the river has three projecting bays in the centre and a terrace modelled with swept corners. The area above the lobby between the Painted Chamber and the new House of Lords has a conference room laid out with benches. In drawings 46,47 and 50, the royal route from the King's Entrance (on the south side) via the King's Robing Room is the same but on drawing 48 the Robing Room has been moved westwards.
S. Sawyer, 'Soane at Westminster', PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1999, p. 180, drawings 47-49 (with others) are part of the final stage A in Soane's sequence of designs.
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