Preliminary design, c. 1693. Three presentation drawings by Hawksmoor (433-435):
433 - AS IV.47. Ground- and upper-floor plans, drawn to a scale of just over 10 ft to an inch (scale drawn twice). Brown ink over pencil, shaded with grey wash. 488 x 356 mm. Watermark: Strasbourg lily WR. Pencil dimensions on ground-floor plan: 62 (internal length of school room), 28 (internal width of school room), 25–6 (short façade of end pavilion), 52 (long façade of pavilion). Pricked through, presumably for transfer.
434 - AS IV.48. Elevation, drawn to a scale just over 10 ft to an inch (drawn scale). Brown ink over pencil, shaded with grey wash. 361 x 459 mm. Watermark: P. Inscribed in bottom R corner (relating to letters on R pavilion): Memdum Alternatly brick and Stone. / A Stone Coine / B Brick Coine. The quoining of the L pavilion is dimensioned.
435 - AS IV.49. Long and cross sections, drawn to a scale of just over 10 ft to an inch (drawn scale). Brown ink over pencil and (mostly) scorer, shaded with grey wash. 285 x 463 mm. Watermark: P.
Note to 433-435: This project, like the Writing School at Christ's Hospital, was made for Sir John Moore. Wren had produced a 'designe' by March 1693 (WS 11.88), which was subsequently altered to include an upper floor of bedrooms, as shown here. Wren recommended Thomas Woodstock, carpenter, as executant surveyor, but when Woodstock died in the following year, Sir William Wilson took control of the project. Wilson, a local statuary mason, had ideas of his own and substantially revised Wren's design. Summoned to London by Moore, Wilson showed his 'draughts' to Wren, who (in Wilson's account), 'did aprove of mine rather than his' (WS 11.105). The building was executed to Wilson's revised design in 1692–95. The drawings at All Souls were made by Hawksmoor, whose involvement is not otherwise documented.
[WS 11.84–107 and pls. 53–57; Sekler 1956, 152; Whinney 1971, 195; Dunmore 1992; Colvin 1995, 1063, 1091]