Alternative designs inspired by the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Drawn by Hawksmoor. None of them is scaled (175-178):
175 - AS IV.63. Elevation, with an Ionic hexastyle portico, stepped pyramid, and quadriga. Brown ink over pencil, shaded with grey wash. 452 x 291 mm. Watermark: P. Part plan sketched in pencil in top R corner.
176 - AS IV.64. Elevation and half plan, with a Composite decastyle colonnade, stepped pyramid, and quadriga. Brown ink and pencil. 483 x 376 mm. Watermark: Strasbourg lily WR. A pedestal has been added over the centre of pediment.
177 - AS IV.61. W elevation. The stepped pyramid is raised on a tower. Probably preparatory to 178. Pencil. 488 x 377 mm. Watermark: DS. Inscribed in pencil by later hand: Studies for St Edmd the king / Bloomsbury. Staining from 263.
178 - AS IV.62. Another version of 177. Brown ink and pencil. 498 x 328 mm. Watermark: fleur-de-lis; HD (joined). The main order is Ionic in the under-drawing. The roundels are not inked in. Pencil additions (from top to bottom):
- (i) the spire is continued higher (this may be part of the under-drawing);
- (ii) a low pointed spire is loosely sketched over the design;
- (iii) scrolled buttresses are introduced at the base of the tower; and
- (iv) a smaller pediment is drawn over the middle four columns.
On verso: part elevation, loosely sketched in pencil, of a panelled wall surmounted by parapet and two pedestals. Endorsed in ink by Hawksmoor (probably unrelated to sketch): 3: 9: 6 New Schoole.
Note to 175-178: These drawings were probably made in connection with the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. They should be compared with Hawksmoor's St George's, Bloomsbury.
[Downes 1959, 187 and cat. nos. 152–55; Downes 1969, 138, 142; Du Prey 2000, 73–75, 114–15; Hart 2002, 52, 54]