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Design for the river front, 24 June 1825
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- Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
Reference number
SM 51/3/4
Purpose
Design for the river front, 24 June 1825
Aspect
Elevation of the river front of the new committee rooms
Scale
bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for New Committee Rooms &c - House of Lords and (pencil) 11/9, 18/, 10/9
Signed and dated
- 24 June 1825
1825 and (pencil) 24/6/25
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, yellow ochre and black washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (332 x 554)
Hand
Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)
Notes
This design for the river front of the new committee rooms is in a Gothic style with battlements, buttresses and square-headed mullion-and-transom windows with trefoil heads. It has seven bays and three storeys, and measures approximately 80 feet across. The Gothic style was chosen to match Wyatt's Speaker's House (S. Sawyer, Soane at Westminster, PhD thesis, Columbia University, p. 736). To the right of the drawing in pencil the heights of the three floors are given (11'9'', 18', 10'9''). Also in pencil are a rough design for an arch linking the committee rooms to the house of Black Rod and, on the elevation, designs for an additional buttress between the first and second bays (surely to be replicated between the sixth and seventh bays) and a design to turn the central window on the ground floor into an entrance.
Level
Drawing
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