[1] Finished drawing showing a plan for the first scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - King's Bench Prison, Bench Walk (now McCoid Way), Southwark, London: unexecuted designs for additions to the building and enclosing walls, 1773 (8)
    - Finished drawings and record drawings for the first scheme for additions to the building, 1773, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 38/22

Purpose

[1] Finished drawing showing a plan for the first scheme for additions to the building, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan showing a D-shaped curtain wall, with circular towers, and a three-bay gatehouse with circular towers on the corners, and a large additional rectangular court to one side, and containing a further rectangular curtain wall, with a segmental entrance on one side, and within the walls are two ranges of rectangular buildings containing cells

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

First Design for Additional Buildings and Outside Wall for the King's Bench Prison and some measurements given (verso) 2 / 2

Signed and dated

1773
datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (908 x 563)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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