Design for the lobby to the Scala Regia, 21 November 1822

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: Palace of Westminster: designs for alterations and additions, 1793-1828 (499)
    - London: House of Lords, Palace of Westminster: alterations and additions, 1817-28 (220)
      - Royal Entrance and Scala Regia, 1822-23 (68)
        Further designs for the Royal Entrance, November 1822

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Reference number

SM 71/2/59

Purpose

Design for the lobby to the Scala Regia, 21 November 1822

Aspect

Plan, Section looking from A to B and Section looking from C to D

Scale

bar scale of 6/11 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: A, B, C, D

Signed and dated

21 November 1822
21^st Nov^r / 1822

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, burnt Sienna, blue, sepia and yellow ochre washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (574 x 335)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The 'section looking from A to B' shows the entrance from the small irregular vestibule through to the larger vestibule at the base of the Scala Regia. The entrance takes the shape of a four-centred arch and has Gothic ornamentation above, in keeping with the Gothic style of the Royal Entrance. The 'section looking from C to D' shows the entrance from the Scala Regia vestibule looking back towards the smaller vestibule. This entrance is in a Classical style with an overmantel of foliate motifs, pendants and roundels with rosettes on the ceiling and a central, round skylight. The intermediate entrance between the two vestibules - Gothic on one side and classical on the other - acts as a point of transition between the historical Gothic exterior of the House of Lords (and Soane's Royal Entrance) and the ornately classical interior of the Scala Regia, part of the King's ceremonial processional route to the House of Lords.

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Drawing

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