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Frederick Bell, architects
FBE · Fonds · May 1842-May 1875

Includes details of the work completed by Frederick Bell, architects. The drawings are arranged chronologically by date.

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/1/133 · File · March 1853
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

The plans are folded inside the elevations on a separate piece of card. The elevations depict the entrance front, the principle elevation, and the garden elevation of a grand detached brick building with three floors. It has been coloured using a brown colour wash. The plans show the ground floor and the first floor with flaps of paper being used to propose alterations. These are sketched in pencil with a pink wash on the walls. The date (March 1853) is inscribed on the right hand side next to Frederick Bell's signature. There is also a note in pencil which reads 'Hookstone [?]'.

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/1/140 · File · 19th Century
Part of Frederick Bell, architects

An A1 size piece of paper is folded around two more pieces of A2 paper with additional drawings. The inside of the A1 paper contains pencil elevations of a domed building with columns and ornate entablature. The exterior has pencil elevations and ground plans of a multistorey unidentified building. There are also elevations of a house with multipaned windows and additional drawings, including those of domed ceilings. The enfolded paper A2 on the right hand side has cross sections of an unidentified three storey building with attic space and basement. The name on the top left corner is 'Mr R. Wilson'. There is a caption in pencil which appears to say 'From the level of the flags on front - the bottom of the window'. The cross section is drawn in pencil and ink with a pale pink wash. The other piece of A2 paper has pencil ground plans on both sides with designs for the bases of columns.

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.