[7] Design for the front elevation

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  - London: 21 St James's Square: unexecuted design by Soane, June 1794; as built design by R.F.Brettingham, July 1795, earlier design by Brettingham and Soane's designs for fittings1795, 1797 for the 5th Duke of Leeds, 1794-7
    - Soane's designs for a new house, June 1794 [1] - [12]

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Reference number

SM volume 66/52

Purpose

[7] Design for the front elevation

Aspect

Elevation of the Entrance Front Saint James' Square

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and running vertical dimensions given from Flooor of Basement Story

Signed and dated

John Soane Archt June 21 1794

Medium and dimensions

Black pen, black, raw umber and sepia washes with quadruple ruled and wash border on wove paper (700 x 490) on page 52 of volume 66

Hand

attributed to Frederick Meyer (1774 - ?), pupil April 1791-1796

Notes

The front is of five bays and four storeys together with a semi-basement with segmental-headed windows. The ground floor has banded rustication and the portico has an Ionic order in which the fluted shafts are stopped for the lower one-third of their height. Soane was to use the same unconventional stopping (though for a Doric order) in his design for Tyringham in Buckinghamshire a year later. (See D.Watkin, Thomas Hope and the Neo-Classical Idea, 1968, p.89).

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