SM Adam volume 28/47

[6] Finished drawing showing an axial section though the building, c1765-68, unexecuted

Central axial section through the building as shown in the plan (Adam volume 28/49), with a convex colonnade of fluted Corinthian columns on the left-hand side, behind which are pedimented doors alternating with sculpture-filled niches, and inside is a hall with a coved ceiling, surmounted by a room on the first storey containing a screen of Ionic columns, and beyond these rooms, on the right-hand side of the section, is the two-storey rotunda, with a domed ceiling ornamented with octagonal coffering, above an entablature ornamented with dentils, ox skulls and swags, and with a central door, flanked by engaged Corinthian columns supporting a pediment, and surmounted by a rectangular relief overdoor panel, and the door is flanked by rectangular sculpture-filled recesses, which are above rectangular panels containing swags, and beyond are apses with coffered semi-domes, and containing urn-filled niches, and beyond the rotunda on the far right-hand side of the section is a single-storey, single-bay room containing a door, surmounted by an overdoor panel ornamented with a naturalistic anthemion