Sir John Soane's Museum
Concise catalogue of drawings

1 Design for a palace (triangular)
Plan
LONDON:
2-9 Designs for a Great Western Entrance or
Barrier into the Metropolis at Hyde Park
Corner, c. 1826
2 Elevation of a triumphal arch
3 Detail of a railing
4 Plans & elevations of the Barrier
d: 9th April 1826
Verso: LONDON : Board of Trade & Privy
Council Offices, Whitehall
Design
Part-plan of ground floor
d: Lincolns Inn Fields/March 1826
5 Sketch plan & elevations of the Barrier
d: (in Soane's hand): 31 Jan: 1826
6 Sketch plans & elevations of the Barrier
d: (in Soane's hand): Feb 2nd 1825
Verso: Sketch perspective of the Barrier
7 Plan & elevation of a Triumphal Arch
8 Perspective
d: Feby 3rd 1826
9 Plan & perspective
d: Feby 1st 1826
10-12 Fragments of a design for a Palace or Senate
House
Elevations
Prov: These three fragments were sold by a
dealer in Tottenham Court Road to three
different people, c. 1938. One was bought by
John Summerson, one by Iolo Williams,
another by Dr Saxl. Williams & Saxl
presented their fragments to the Museum
c. 1947
13 Fragment of the same design (Nos 10-12)
Elevation
Prov: Presented by Dr Saxl, May 11th 1938
(purchased from the same dealer as above)

LONDON: Constitution Arch, Hyde Park Corner
Survey drawings or copies of Decimus Burton's
designs, late 1820s (4):
Plans

Designs for a National Monument, made by Soane
in 1818:
1-2 Alternative plans
1 d: January 15th 1818 HB
2 d: 2 March 1821
3 Perspective
d: 21 Jany 1818
4 Elevation & perspective
d: 30 Jany 1818
5 Perspective
d: 4 Feb. 1818
6-11 Interior perspective
d: 6 Jan 1818 - 10th January 1818
12 Plans, sections & interior perspective
assembled as a montage
d: July 31st 1818
13 Section & interior perspective, assembled as a
montage
d: 29th Jany 1818
14-16 Sections
d: 9th January-22nd January 1818
17 Section & interior perspectives, assembled as
a montage
d: Jany 31st 1818
18 Sections
d: 15-16 January 1818
19 Plan, section & elevation assembled as a
montage
d: Feb 11 1818
20 Elevation
d: 20 Jany 1818
21 Part-elevation
s & d: F Copland/Jan 14/1812 (1818)
22 Part-elevation
s & d: CP 14 Jan 1818
23-26 Elevations
23 d: 5th January 1818
24 s &d: F. Copland Jan 1 1818
27 Plan
s & d: F. Copland / Jan 22 1818
28 Plan & elevation in Soane's hand
d: 28 Decr. 1817
Verso: Sketch section in Soane's hand
29-32 Plans
d: 6th-23rd Jan. 1818
33 Plans & elevations
34 Plan
35 Plan & sketch elevation (in Soane's hand)
36-37 Plans (previously filed in 32.2)
37 d: 13 January 1818

Designs for a Monument to commemorate the
services of HRH the Duke of York as Commander-in-
Chief, 1829
MS folio text, with 13 watercolour drawings & 5
prints, 33 pp.
f1-16 MS text & copies of letters relating to
different designs
f17 Print of Triumphal arch monument at
entrance to Downing Street
f18 Print of a design for a Royal Palace
f19 Print of a design for Buckingham Palace
f20 Print of the Triumphal arch at Hyde Park
Corner
f21 Print of the Entrance Barrier, Hyde Park
Corner
f22-23 Blank
f24-33 Original drawings
f24 Site plan showing monument on Horse
Guards Parade
f25-33 Variant designs for the monument in the
form of an entrance or Triumphal arch in
Whitehall in front of Horse Guards, or as
a Triumphal arch at the entrance to
Downing Street
1-3 Designs for the monument as a monopteral
Corinthian temple in St James's Park, with
Horse Guards Parade behind

Designs for the Wellington Memorial, 1830s (8):
1-2 Design, triangular in plan, pyramidal top
1 Perspective [not microfilmed]
2 Plan & elevation
3-5 Design, square in plan, with domed top
3 Plan & elevation
4 Plan & elevation
5 Plan & elevation
s & d: 24 Dec 1836/made by Mr R from my
direction
6-8 Design, triangular in plan, surmounted by an
open obelisk
6 Plan & elevation
Verso: LONDON: No. 12 Stratton Street
Plan of Attic floor
7 Plan & elevation
d: LIF/13 Dec 1836
8 Perspective

Miscellaneous designs for Monuments & tablets:
1 Design for a wall tablet, unnamed
2 Design for a vase
d: June 4th 1805
3 Design for a vase
d: June 3rd 1805
4 Design for a vase
d: 11 Decr 1818
5-9 LONDON: Churchyard of St Nicholas,
Chiswick
Designs for a tomb for Philippe Jacques de
Loutherbourg. 1812:
5 Perspective of three designs
d: April 23rd 1812
Verso: Letter to Soane from L. de
Loutherbourg /May the 3 1812 [Not
microfilmed]
6-7 Elevations
8 Plans & elevations
d: May 29th 1812
9 Plan, elevations, sections & detail
d: May 27th 1812
10-12 LONDON : Southwark Cathedral
Design for a tablet for Abraham Newland
(1730-1807), 1808:
10-12 Elevations
10 d: May 5 1808
11 d: March 5th 1808
13 LONDON: Church of St Mary, Leytonstone
Design for the Samuel Bosanquet tomb,
1806:
Details of scroll ornament
14-15 Designs for unidentified wall tombs
16-17 LONDON: Church of St Stephen, Coleman
Street
Designs for a monument to Claude
Bosanquet
16 w/m: 1812
18 Design for an unidentified wall tomb
19-20 LONDON : Churchyard of St Mary Abbot,
Kensington
Designs for a tomb for Miss Elizabeth
Johnstone, 1784:
19 Contract design
Elevation & section
d: Margaret Street/July 1784
20 Elevation & sketch
21-22 LONDON: Church of St Stephen, Coleman
Street
Design for a monument to Claude
Bosanquet, 1786:
21 Plan, elevations & section
22 Plan, elevations, section & details
d: Margaret Street Sept 1786
23-48 LONDON : Church of St Mary, Leytonstone
Design for the Samuel Bosanquet tomb, 1806
23 Plan
24-27 Elevations of variant designs
d: Sept 5-Sept 9 1806
28 Section
d: Sept 6th 1806
29-31 Plans
29 d: Sept 13th 1806
30 d: Copy / Sept 22 1806/Geo. Wight
32-34 Elevations
s & d: Copy / Sept 22 06/Geo. Wight
35-37 Perspective of three variant designs
d: Sept 4: 1806
38 Watercolour perspective, within ruled
border
d: Aug. 14th 1806
39-40 Plans
d: Sept 10th 1806
41-45 Elevations of variant designs
d: Sept 10th-16th 1806
46-48 Watercolour perspectives of variant designs
46-47 d: 8-9th Aug 1806
48 d: May 1808
49-70 CKICKET ST THOMAS (Somerset): Church of St
Thomas
Design for a monument to Viscount
Bridport, 1814-1816:
49-70 Elevations of variant designs
49-50 d: December 9 1814
52 d: 1816
53 Rough sketch elevations
d: As sent 8th May 1816
54-55 d: 1816
56-58 Three variant designs
d: 2nd - 6th February 1816
59 Sketch elevation in Soane's hand
d: 30 Jan 1816
60-70 d: January - February 1816

LONDON: Churchyard of Old St Pancras Church
Designs & progress views of the Soane Tomb, 1815-16:
1 Plan of site
2 Plan & sections of vault & site plan
d: 1st December 1815
3-5 Elevations
d: 14-20 Feb 1816
6 Plan
d: 15th Feb 1816
7 Perspective of unfinished tomb
Insc: The Monument as it appeared on Good
Friday 12 April 1816!
8 Perspective of unfinished tomb
9 Perspective of unfinished tomb
Insc: View of the Monument as it appeared on
Saturday 13th April at Midday
10 Perspective of tomb, with scaffolding
d: April 13th 1816
11 Perspective of tomb, unfinished
d: April 15th 1816
12 Perspective of tomb, unfinished
d: April 16th 1816
13 Perspective of tomb, with Church in
background
d: April 17th 1816
14 Perspective of tomb, unfinished, showing
surrounding buildings
Verso: Sketch of scaffolding
d: April 17th 1816
15 Perspective of tomb, unfinished, with church
in background
d: April 18th 1816
16-19 Perspective of tomb, without balustrade
20-24 Perspective of tomb, with balustrade
25-27 Early perspectives of designs for tomb
25 d: LIF/14 Feb 1816
28-30 Elevations of balustrade
d: 28 Feb 1816 - 12 March 1816
31-35 Perspectives showing tomb with various
balustrades

1 Recto: LONDON: Church of St Peter,
Walworth
Design for the organ case, c. 1824
Plan showing layout of pipes
Verso: LONDON: Church, Brixton
Study of an organ case, c. 1824
Plan showing layout of pipes
2 Unidentified preliminary design for an
organ case
Sketch perspective
3-4 AYNHOE PARK (Northants):
Preliminary design & design for an organ case, 1799
Plan & elevation
3 d: Nov 19th 1799
5 Unidentified design for an organ case in a
private house
Elevation & section
6-7 ?TYRINGHAM HOUSE (Bucks):
Design for an organ case for William Praed
Esq, 1799
Plan & elevations
6 d: Oct: 12th 1799
7 TYRINGHAM HOUSE (Bucks):
Verso: Design for the drawing room
Ceiling plan & laid-out wall elevations
(fragment)
d: Sept: 24: 1797
8-10 Recto: LONDON: Church of St Peter,
Walworth
Contract drawings & alternative design, 1824
Plans, elevations & perspective
8 & 9 d: 16th Feb 1824
8-9 Verso: Contract signatures
d: 17 Feb 1824
10 Verso: LONDON: Law Courts, Westminster
Preliminary design (See 53.1.27)
Sketch plan

1 Unidentified design for balcony railings
Plan & elevation
2 TYRINGHAM HOUSE (Bucks):
Design for Tyringham Lodge Gate, c. 1792
Elevation
3 LONDON: Insolvent Debtors' Court, Portugal
Street
Design for railing & gateway, 1824
Plan & elevation
d: 19th Augst/1824
4 Unidentified design for railing & lamp iron
Plan & elevation
5 Recto: LONDON: Mount Street
Study of Iron Railing to a House, 1797
FS details
Verso: LONDON: Berkley Street
Study of Iron Railing to a House, 1797
FS details
d: Sep. 4th 1797
6 Recto & verso: Designs for gate & railings to
a park, 1807
Plans, elevations & detail
d: (verso): March 22nd 1807
7-9 Unidentified 19th C
LONDON: Buckingham Palace
Studies of Iron girders, 1831
Details
8 Insc: verso: 21 April 1831- / Iron Girders etc/
at Buck: Palace / Rec. from Rochly,/ Mr Martyn
foreman / at the Palace

1-77 Unallocated numbers
78-98 LEES COURT (Kent):
Designs & copies of designs for the stable
block for the Hon. Lewis Thomas Watson,
1789-90
78 Recto: Elevations next the lawn & of Entrance
Front
Verso: Elevations for W & E sides of court &
next Drying Ground
d (recto & verso): Albion Place Nov: 1790
79 Entrance front elevation
80 Elevations of N & S fronts of court
Verso: Plan showing Carpentry to Hayloft Floor
d (Verso): Albion Place Dec 13th 1790
81 Section through roof
Verso: Plan with details of roof beams
Insc (pencil on verso): Copy Feb 10 1790
82 Sections for Roof over Centre Building N
side of Court
Verso: Roof plans for turret & over Ride &
Hunters Stable
Insc & d (verso): drawn from Chawners Sketches/
Oct 20th 1790
83 Recto: Plan of the Hayloft Floor
Verso: Plan of the Ground Floor
84 Recto & verso: Details for Cornices
83 & 84 d: Nov 1790.
85 Recto: Various sections
Verso: Details for doors & windows
86 Recto: Plan of the Ground Floor
Verso: Elevations & section
87 Elevations for the Arched Entrance & the
Coachhouses & front next the Lawn
88 Elevations showing inside Front of the Stables
& Entrance Front
89 Plan & section through tower & Ride &
Elevations of Coachhouse Stable
90 Elevation for the Strangers Coachhouses, the
Hackhouse Stable & Section through the Hunters
Stable & Ride, & Elevation next the Laundry
Building
87-90 d: Copy January 27th 1790
91 Elevations
d: Dec 1789
92 Ground floor plan
93 Plan of the Hayloft Floor
92-93 d: Copy Jan 27th 1790
94 Elevations shewing the front of the Ride & the
Entrance front
d: Welbeck Street Dec 13th 1789
95 Entrance front elevations
d: Dec 11 1789
96 As for No 90
d: Welbeck Street Dec 13th 1789
97 Plan of the Hay Loft floor . . .
98 Ground floor plan
97-98 d: Welbeck Street, Dec 12 1789
99-100 BURN HALL (Co. Durham):
Design for a Cowhouse for George Smith Esq,
1783
99 Plan & elevation for the back front
s: J Soane. Margaret St Cavendish Square
100 Plan showing Haylofts & elevation for
Principal front next the Road
s: (as for No 99) & d: June 1783
101-102 TENDRING HALL (Suffolk):
Designs for Stable Buildings, Kitchen Garden &
Lodges for Sir Joshua Rowley, 1785
101 Plan & elevations for stables
d: Jan 3rd 1785
102 Plan for kitchen garden & plan & elevation
for lodges
d: Jan: 1785
103 Unidentified 18th C
Survey drawing of Stable building
Elevations
104 Design for stable buildings
Plan & elevations
105 TENDRING HALL (Suffolk):
Design for stable buildings, c. 1785
Perspective showing entrance front with
clocktower
106-107 LONDON: Bond Street
Design for stables
106 Plan & laid-out interior elevations
107 Details for manger, stallpost, cornice