Design for the Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms as executed, 17 January 1824

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - 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 Gallery and Committee Rooms, 1823-24 (66)
        Further designs for the Royal Gallery, December 1823

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Reference number

SM 51/2/11

Purpose

Design for the Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms as executed, 17 January 1824

Aspect

Plan of the Royal Gallery &^c

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: House of Lords and dimensions given

Signed and dated

17 January 1824
17^th Jan^y

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink pen, pink, blue, sepia and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (735 x 537)

Hand

Charles Edward Papendiek (1801 - 1835)
Pupil January 1818 - March 1824.

Notes

The Royal Gallery and Committee Rooms were executed to this design: a three-bay gallery with columns is preceded by a square ante-room with prominent door and window surrounds. The gallery sits on the site of the old House of Lords, between the former Prince's Chamber and the Painted Chamber - the former of which gives way to the ante-room and an open-newel staircase. On the other side of an open area are the committee rooms, linked by a long corridor on the west side of the range. The south front of the new block is composed of five bays that are divided by pilasters.

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Drawing

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