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Reference number
SM 51/3/17
Purpose
Design for the ground floor, 1 July 1825
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor / [in another hand - ?George Bailey] of a Design for New Committee Rooms / for the House of Lords
Scale
bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, labelled: 25'6'' by 11'10½'', 25'6'' by 28'6'', 25'6'' by 11'10½'', 24' by 28'0'', 16'3'' by 22.0, 9'9'' by 12'3'', 16'7½'' by 18'3'', 26'0'' by 11'9'', 26'0'' by 11'9''
Signed and dated
- 1 July 1825
Lincolns Inn Fields / 1st July 1825
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink and dark pink washes, pricked for transfer with multi-ruled sepia and black wash border on wove paper (524 x 730)
Hand
Possibly Stephen Burchell (1806 - c.1843)
Pupil January 1823 - April 1828.
Pupil January 1823 - April 1828.
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt 1823
Notes
In July 1825 a select committee decided that the committee room that was being built between the Painted Chamber and Scala Regia would be better suited "to the purpose of keeping the journals and other books belonging to the House". Designs for a new building towards the river were submitted by Soane and it was agreed by the select committee that these "will afford two committee rooms of large dimensions, and a third of a smaller size; and that the upper and lower stories of the same building will provide sufficient space for the placing and safe keeping of the increasing mass of records, papers, and writings, which cannot now for want of room be deposited in the Parliament Office, and at the same time, for the necessary accommodation of some of the officers and servants of the House" (King's Works, VI, 1973, p. 523).
The following plans have the existing committee rooms at the bottom of the sheet, shown in a dark pink wash. The new committee rooms (in pink wash) are situated between the existing committee rooms and the river (at the top of the sheet). Catalogued here is a set of plans for the ground, principal and second floors with two sets of copies made on 1 and 5 July 1825.
The new extension is essentially a 5-bay square with access from all three levels of the existing committee rooms. The ground floor has nine rooms plus closets and corridors and a large, open-newel staircase.
The following plans have the existing committee rooms at the bottom of the sheet, shown in a dark pink wash. The new committee rooms (in pink wash) are situated between the existing committee rooms and the river (at the top of the sheet). Catalogued here is a set of plans for the ground, principal and second floors with two sets of copies made on 1 and 5 July 1825.
The new extension is essentially a 5-bay square with access from all three levels of the existing committee rooms. The ground floor has nine rooms plus closets and corridors and a large, open-newel staircase.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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