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Reference number

SM Adam volume 10/62

Purpose

[153] Design for the building, c1769-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Axial section through the building, with two-storey walls, and a pitched roof surmounted by a ball-shaped finial, and with a barrel-vaulted central nave, with an altar ornamented with strigillation set against a tripartite, pedimented reredos, surmounted by a Venetian window, and the nave is flanked by aisles, articulated by two rows of Corinthian columns to each side, and supporting galleried seating

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769-76
    date range: 1769-76

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (233 x 204)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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