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Notes on M'Cullock's House
FBE/1/114 · Item · 19th century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

List written in pencil detailing the rooms and architectural features of the house. Also lists information about the surrounding grounds and the dates of construction (1866-1867).

FBE/1/136 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

The sketch shows a lodge with doric columns. It is situated beside the entrance to a driveway framed by stone pillars. The design resembles the doric lodge at the Wentworth Estate. The lodge is surrounded by foliage and there is a rough outline of a male statue on the right hand side. There is also a faint indication of a river with a bridge sketched across it.

FBE/1/142 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

On one side of the paper there is a design of an opening drawn in black ink. This resembles a door but the position of the handle suggests a different function, as it would require a hinge on the bottom rather than the side. The other side of the paper shows the elevation and ground plan of an unidentified building drawn faintly in pencil. This building resembles a church.

FBE/1/150/2 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

The copy has been made in ink on tracing paper. It is labelled in pencil 'Ottley's engraving' and 'Annunciation from the Biblia Pauperum'. Ottley is thought to refer to William Young Ottley's book 'An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving Upon Copper and in Wood'.

FBE/1/150/39 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

Small sketch captioned 'The Chateau of Dieppe'. It shows the castle from beyond the surrounding walls. This may be a copy of an engraving printed in the 'Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique universel illustre', which was published under the direction of Jules Trousset between 1886 and 1891.

FBE/1/150/40 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

The sketch is captioned '[Former?] Front of the Gate House to the Old Priory Montacute Somersetshire'. The porch is captioned 'Porch of the time of Henry VIII' and there is also a line indicating the 'line of sheds' and below the bow window the caption reads 'Entrance Arch hidden by sheds'. Thought to be an adaptation of an illustration printed on page 366 of The Builder Vol. 3, 1845.

FBE/1/150/47 · Item · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

The small sketch is captioned 'House at Grantham Lincoln 15th century'. It shows the exterior of a building with a bay window and is thought to be copied from p.231 of 'The Pictorial History of England...' published by George Lillie Craik in 1839. The sketch also includes two small drawings of windows with the captions 'string under bay' and 'window heads'.