Designs for the New Law Courts
Architectural Drawing
1825 (made)
1825 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Plan and section through the rectangular top-lighted entrance hall to the Court of King's Bench from Westminster Hall (recto); section through the end bay with a small lantern, and through the incised Greek-key decoration on the lantern and the chimney piece, side view, frontal view and two moulding profiles of a scroll bracket supporting a panel with an acroterion decoration.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Designs for the New Law Courts (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil with yellow wash (recto); pen and ink <i>(verso)</i> |
| Brief description | Plan and section through the rectangular top-lighted entrance hall to the Court of King's Bench from Westminster Hall, probably done by C. J. Richardson, as a student draughtsman with Sir John Soane, 1825 |
| Physical description | Plan and section through the rectangular top-lighted entrance hall to the Court of King's Bench from Westminster Hall (recto); section through the end bay with a small lantern, and through the incised Greek-key decoration on the lantern and the chimney piece, side view, frontal view and two moulding profiles of a scroll bracket supporting a panel with an acroterion decoration. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Insc. with dimensions and numerous inscriptions on the drawings (recto & verso); at lower right Entrance to the Court of King's Bench from West. Hall, and a similar title on the page (recto); d. at lower left, (recto) [O]ctober 1925. |
| Object history | This drawing was pasted into a copy of Sir John Soane's book Designs for Public and Private Buildings owned by Soane's assistant Charles James Richardson. Richardson built up a large collection of originals and copies (many of which he executed himself) of his master's designs, and distributed the bulk of them into two folio volumes, interspersed with the printed pages of the book. These volumes were bought by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) in 1863. |
| Production | This drawing is 1 of a series of designs by Sir John Soane for the New Law Courts drawn for several schemes submitted by the architect between June 1821 and 1828 (3306:49-95). Work began in October 1822 and construction continued until the end of 1827. Although the building survived the fire in the Palace of Westminster, the Law Courts were demolished in 1883. The court rooms are arranged alphabetically by the name of the court. |
| Association | |
| Bibliographic reference | du Prey, P. de la Ruffinière. Sir John Soane: Catalogues of Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p.93, cat.350 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 3306:79 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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