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Two designs by Simon Basil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

A. P. Baggs
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Bound into the back of the volume known as Gough Drawings A3 in the Bodleian Library are ten leaves from the notebook of an architect or surveyor. They have been used on one side and depict the floor plans of two large town houses and two elevations of the smaller house. Both sets of drawings are in ink with some use of wash for filling in the walls — in the case of the larger house it appears that the wash has been used to distinguish masonry walls from those of lighter construction which are left blank. An unusual feature of the drawings is that the paper has been cut away to show the open light wells above courts and staircases. The page size is 14½in by 11½in and the drawing scale of the larger house is one inch to 12 feet and of the smaller house one inch to 16 feet.

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Section 2: London
Information
Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 104 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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References

1 They are not listed in the printed catalogue of Bodleian manuscripts but Sir John Summerson has commented on the drawings for the smaller house in Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (paperback edition 1970), p. 100.

2 British Museum Facsimiles, *372, 1, 51; 11, 4. For the map of Ostend see Skelton, R. A. and Summerson, J. A Description of Maps . . . in The Collection made by William Cecil (Roxburghe Club, 1971), p. 66 Google Scholar; for the plan of Sherborne Lodge see Oswald, A. Country Houses of Dorset (1959 ed.), pi. 150.Google Scholar

3 Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1978) p. 95.

4 Survey of London, xviii, StMartin in the Fields Part2 (1937), The Strand, Chapter 18.

5 HMC Egmont, I, 488. I am grateful to Mr John Ferris for bringing this reference to my notice.

6 HMC Hatfield, xn, 375.

7 Survey of London, xviii, 121; J.B. Lingard, ‘The Houses of Robert Cecil First Earl of Salisbury 1595-1612’ (1981), unpublished M. A. report, Courtauld Institute of Art, pp.25-27.

8 Ibid., plate2c which reproduces the original drawing in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

9 Cecil is said to have spent over £600 a year on clothes for his own use. Stone, Lawrence Family and Fortune (1973), p. 29.Google Scholar