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The form of the building was designed by Francis Fowke, and is seen here largely as executed, replete with recessed first-floor balcony, twisted columns and paired brick pilasters. A number of small changes would, however, be wrought before the façade was built: the central doorway would be placed in a square-headed opening, the roofline statues altered, and the tympanums of the pediment and round-headed first-floor arches would be decorated with scenes of figures executed in mosiac. These decorative aspects were chiefly designed by Godfrey Sykes. Had Francis Fowke's grand scheme for the Victoria and Albert Museum been carried out in full, the grand Lecture Theatre façade would have been a centrepiece that was visible from Cromwell Road: Fowke intended the south side of the quadrangle to have been finished with an open screen, flanked by curving colonnades (see for instance E.1023-1927). Instead, the south side was eventually closed with the National Art Library range (begun ca. 1878), which Aston Webb later flanked with the current buildings fronting Cromwell Road (begun 1899).","physicalDescription":"Pen and ink with watercolour on paper. This detailed elevation shows the south façade of the Lecture Theatre block of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The three storey façade is divided into three lateral parts (of one bay, three bays, one bay) by piers at ground-floor level, and paired pilasters on the floors above. The ground floor is ornamented with horizontal bands of decoration, rectangular windows and a central pair of panelled doors set within a round-headed arch. At first-floor level, the round-headed arches of the central three bays form a recessed balcony; either side, the round-headed arches of the flanking bays encase paired windows. The diminutive second floor is pierced by tripartite sets of round-headed window openings, above which the central section of the façade is crowned by a pediment. The tympanums of the pediment and round-headed first-floor arches are decorated with cartouche motifs in framed roundels. The drawing has been cut out following the line of the roofline and glued onto a second piece of paper. A narrow strip of painted paper is glued over the base of the top-left tripartite window. 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