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| 1. | (a) The old Horse Guards from the Parade;
(b) the old Horse Guards from Whitehall | (a) From water-colour drawing by
Taylor, preserved in the Guildhall
Library; (b) from "Vue du Palais
Royall de Whitehall comme il est à
présent, 1724, "J. Kip, del. et sc.,
in the Crace Collection, British
Museum. |
| 2. | The old Horse Guards, plans of ground and
first floors | From drawings in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 3. | A perspective view of the west front of the
Royal Building for His Majesty's Horse
and Foot Guards | From engraving by John Vardy in
the Bodleian Library. |
| 4. | Horse Guards, elevation to the parade | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 5. | The proposed Horse Guards, plan | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 6. | (a) The proposed Horse Guards, elevation;
(b) Horse Guards, plan of first floor (1847) | From drawings in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 7. | The proposed Horse Guards, alternative
treatments of Guard Boxes | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 8. | The proposed Horse Guards, plans of central
block | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 9. | The proposed Horse Guards, section through
central block | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 10. | The proposed Horse Guards, elevation of
north front | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 11. | The proposed Horse Guards, sectional elevation, looking south | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 12. | Horse Guards (1847): (a) section through
centre looking north; (b) sectional elevation,
looking west | From drawings in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 13. | Horse Guards, elevations of stables block | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 14. | Horse Guards, sections of north stable block | From drawing in the possession of
H.M. Office of Works. |
| 15. | Horse Guards, elevation to Parade | Photograph. |
| 16. | Horse Guards, elevation of central block to
Parade | Photograph. |
| 17. | Horse Guards, central block, entrance to
covered way from Parade | Photograph. |
| 18. | Horse Guards, general view from Whitehall | Photograph. |
| 19. | Horse Guards, central block and courtyard
from Whitehall | Photograph. |
| 20. | Horse Guards: (a) view of cupola taken
from roof of Paymaster-General's Office;
(b) general view of covered way, looking
towards the Parade | Photographs. |
| 21. | Horse Guards: (a) general view from Whitehall, looking north-west; (b) view in courtyard, looking north | Photographs. |
| 22. | Horse Guards: (a) room No. 112, formerly
stables; (b) newel to basement stairs | Photographs. |
| 23. | Horse Guards, Commander-in-Chief's room,
formerly the Levée Room | Photographs. |
| 24. | Horse Guards, Commander-in-Chief's room,
portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte | Photographs. |
| 25. | Horse Guards: (a) vestibule on first floor;
(b) interior of cupola, looking upwards
from vestibule | Photographs. |
| 26. | Horse Guards, general view of library | Photograph. |
| 27. | Horse Guards: (a) room No. 46, recess;
(b) room No. 58, general view | Photographs. |
| 28. | Horse Guards, rooms Nos. 63 and 103 | Photographs. |
| 29. | Horse Guards, mantelpieces in rooms Nos.
46 and 65 | Photographs. |
| 30. | Horse Guards, mantelpieces in rooms Nos.
68 and 110 | Photographs. |
| 31. | Whitehall from the north circa 1750 | From oil painting by S. Scott,
reproduced by kind permission
of the Most Hon. the Marquess
of Sligo. |
| 32. | Paymaster-General's Office, elevation to
Whitehall | Photograph. |
| 33. | Paymaster-General's Office, elevation to
Whitehall | Measured drawing. |
| 34. | Paymaster-General's Office, elevation to the
park | Photograph. |
| 35. | Paymaster-General's Office, elevation to the
park | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 36. | Paymaster-General's Office, plans of ground
and first floors | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 37. | Paymaster-General's Office: (a) southern
elevation overlooking Horse Guards stable
yard; (b) room No. 10, general view | Photographs. |
| 38. | Paymaster-General's Office, detail of panelling in Room No. 5 before the windows
were altered in the rebuilding of the
western wall | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 39. | Paymaster-General's Office, plan of large
room in house on site of northern annexe,
showing panelling | From drawing preserved in the
Westminster Public Library. |
| 40. | Paymaster-General's Office, PaymasterGeneral's room: (a) general view from
north; (b) north end | Photographs. |
| 41. | Paymaster-General's Office: (a) lobby to
Paymaster-General's room; (b) grandfather clock in room No. 14. | Photographs. |
| 42. | Paymaster-General's Office, chimney-pieces
in rooms Nos. 11 and 25 | Photographs. |
| 43. | Paymaster-General's Office: (a) main staircase, general view; (b) front staircase,
second-floor landing | Photographs. |
| 44. | Paymaster-General's Office, attic staircase
leading out of room No. 33, second floor | Photograph. |
| 45. | Admiralty House, plans of ground, first and
second floors | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 46. | Admiralty House, elevation towards Whitehall and cross-section | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 47. | Admiralty House, elevation to Whitehall | Photographs. |
| 48. | Admiralty House: (a) entrance hall;
(b) dining-room | Photographs. |
| 49. | Admiralty House, inner hall: (a) view
showing stove in niche; (b) view to staircase | Photographs. |
| 50. | Admiralty House: (a) dining-room, window;
(b) boudoir, mantelpiece | Photographs. |
| 51. | Admiralty House, dining-room, portrait of
Pepys | Photograph. |
| 52. | Admiralty House, drawing-room, general view | Photograph. |
| 53. | Admiralty House: (a) drawing-room, looking towards mantelpiece; (b) library,
general view | Photographs. |
| 54. | Admiralty House, mantelpieces in diningroom and south drawing-room (formerly
music-room) | Photographs. |
| 55. | Admiralty House: (a) vestibule on first
floor; (b) reception room | Photographs. |
| 56. | Admiralty House: (a) dressing-room, end
treatment; (b) reception-room, Venetian
window | Photographs. |
| 57. | Admiralty House, mantelpieces in receptionroom and state bedroom | Photographs. |
| 58. | (a) The First Admiralty, circa 1696; (b) the
Admiralty in 1731 showing stone wall | (a) From pen-and-ink drawing preserved in the Westminster Public
Library; (b) from engraving by
T. Bowles in the Crace Collection,
British Museum. |
| 59. | The Admiralty in 1775, showing newly
erected screen | From engraving by D. Cunego in
The Works in Architecture of Robert
and James Adam (1778). |
| 60. | The Admiralty, general view from Whitehall | Photograph. |
| 61. | The Admiralty, view of the screen looking
north-west | Photograph. |
| 62. | The Admiralty, view in courtyard | Photograph. |
| 63. | The Admiralty, ground-floor plan, 1793 | From drawing in the possession of
the Admiralty. |
| 64. | The Admiralty, first-floor plan, 1896 | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 65. | The Admiralty, original design by Robert
Adam for the new screen, 1760: (a) fronting towards Whitehall; (b) fronting towards the court, and plan | From the original drawings by
Robert Adam in the possession of
the Admiralty. |
| 66. | The Admiralty, entrance hall: (a) showing
mantelpiece; (b) showing Nelson statue | Photographs. |
| 67. | The Admiralty: (a) the northern staircase;
(b) skylight to southern staircase | Photographs. |
| 68. | The Admiralty: (a) the Captains' Room;
(b) room No. 63 on first floor | Photographs. |
| 69. | The Admiralty, Board Room, general view
of southern wall | Photograph. |
| 70. | The Admiralty, Board Room, general view
showing mantelpiece | Photograph. |
| 71. | The Admiralty, Board Room, fireplace and
wind-dial | Photograph. |
| 72. | The Admiralty, Board Room, detail of winddial | Photograph. |
| 73. | The Admiralty, Board Room, portrait of
William IV | Photographs. |
| 74. | The Admiralty, Board Room, portrait of
Nelson | Photograph. |
| 75. | The Admiralty, Board Room, oil paintings
by Vandevelde | Photographs. |
| 76. | The Admiralty, Board Room; (a) heads of
verges; (b) grandfather clock | Photographs. |
| 77. | The Admiralty: (a) corridor on first floor;
(b) room No. 56 | Photographs. |
| 78. | The Admiralty: (a) mantelpiece in room
No. 65; (b) room No. 55 | Photographs. |
| 79. | The Admiralty, view of the telegraph erected
in 1796 | From engraving published by S. W.
Fores, 1796. |
| 80. | Charing Cross, etc., before the street improvements of circa 1760 | From engraving in J. T. Smith's
Antiquities of Westminster. |
| 81. | Nos. 37 to 41, Charing Cross | Photograph. |
| 82. | Nos. 37 to 41, Charing Cross, elevation and
section | Copied from drawing in the possession of H.M. Office of Works. |
| 83. | (a) Nos. 29 and 31, Spring Gardens; (b) No.
31, Spring Gardens, staircase | Photographs. |
| 84. | Lead cisterns from Spring Gardens | Measured drawing. |
| 85. | North Charing Cross in 1720–23 | From engraving by Sutton Nicholls
preserved in the Westminster
Public Library. |
| 86. | North Charing Cross circa 1740 | Reproduced by kind permission of the
London Topographical Society. |
| 87. | North Charing Cross in 1810 | From sketch drawing by W. Capon,
preserved in the Westminster
Public Library. |
| 88. | (a) No. 53, Charing Cross, looking northeast from Spring Gardens; (b) No. 21,
Spring Gardens and No. 53, Charing
Cross, looking north-west | Photographs. |
| 89. | View looking south from Trafalgar Square,
showing buildings in Charing Cross (1896) | Photograph. |
| 90. | Nos. 11, 13 and 15, Spring Gardens | Photograph. |
| 91. | Nos. 21 to 24, Cockspur Street | Photograph. |
| 92. | Scotland Yard, etc., in 1670 | From Vertue's version of the Plan of
Whitehall in 1670, published in
1747, in the Council's collection
of prints and water-colours. |
| 93. | Scotland Yard in 1816 | Based upon a plan in the possession
of H.M. Commissioners of Crown
Lands. |
| 94. | Carrington House in 1886: (a) elevation to
Whitehall; (b) elevation to Whitehall
Yard | From pencil drawings by J. P.
Emslie in the Council's collection
of prints and water-colours. |
| 95. | Carrington House, section and ground plan | From print after Francis Hooper
in the Council's collection of
prints and water-colours. |
| 96. | No. 1, Whitehall and Nos. 1 and 2, Whitehall Place (1907), elevation to Whitehall | Photograph. |
| 97. | No. 1, Whitehall and Nos. 1 and 2, Whitehall Place, elevation to Whitehall | Measured drawing. |
| 98. | No. 1, Whitehall, design by Robert Adam | From original drawing by Robert
Adam in the Council's collection
of prints and water-colours. |
| 99. | Gateway from Whitehall to Great Scotland
Yard, as existing and as proposed in 1818 | From water-colour drawing by Thos.
Leverton and Thos. Chawner in
the Council's collection of prints
and water-colours. |
| 100. | No. 1, Whitehall and Nos. 1 and 2, Whitehall
Place, plans of ground and first floors | Measured drawing. |
| 101. | Nos. 3 to 7, Whitehall Place | Photograph. |
| 102. | Premises in Whitehall Place (1840), ground
plan | Copied from drawings in the possession of H.M. Commissioners
of Crown Lands. |
| 103. | Old Guard Room, Scotland Yard: (a) general
view; (b) detail of roof | (a) From water-colour drawing by
F. Shepherd preserved in the
Westminster Public Library;
(b) from drawing (May, 1817)
preserved in the Westminster
Public Library. |
| 104. | Harrington House, elevation to Craig's
Court | Photograph. |
| 105. | Harrington House: (a) elevation to Craig's
Court; (b) ground plan | (a) Copy of drawing in the possession
of H.M. Office of Works; (b)
drawing. |
| 106. | Harrington House: (a) entrance hall;
(b) staircase | Photographs (from drawings) lent by
H.M. Office of Works. (fn. 1) |
| 107. | Harrington House: (a) staircase at first-floor
landing; (b) staircase and entrance hall | Photographs. |
| 108. | Harrington House, wooden mantelpiece from
room on first floor | Photograph lent by H.M. Office of
Works. (fn. 1) |
| 109. | (a) Nos. 8 and 9, Craig's Court, elevation
facing east; (b) Nos. 8–10, Craig's Court,
ground plan | (a) Photographs; (b) measured drawing. |
| 110. | Site of Nos. 9 to 28, Charing Cross (now
Nos. 1 to 39, Whitehall) in 1610 | From the reproduction by the London
Topographical Society of plan in
the Public Record Office. (fn. 2) |
| 111. | Hogarth's "Night" (1738) | From engraving kindly lent by Mr.
J. H. MacDonnell, F.R.S.A. |
| 112. | The Charing Cross, two views | (a) From drawing preserved in the
Crowle-Pennant Collection, British
Museum; (b) from drawing preserved in the Pepys Library,
Magdalene College, Cambridge. |
| 113–4. | Designs (3) for pedestal for statue of King
Charles I | From drawings preserved in the
Wren Collection in the Library of
All Souls' College, Oxford. |
| 115. | The statue of King Charles I | Photographs (2). |
| 116. | The pedestal of the statue of King Charles I | Measured drawing. |
| 117. | The Pillory at Charing Cross | From engraving by Rowlandson and
Pugin in Ackermann's Microcosm
of London (1809). |