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It was commissioned in 1770 and was intended as the parish church of St Marylebone, just north of Oxford Street, London. The architect designed two schemes, one with a spire and one with a dome. This image shows the more expensive domed option. This kind of ‘section’ drawing, where the building appears to have been cut in half, is still used by architects today. Colour is used to indicate which walls have been ‘cut through’ and to describe the space behind. A range of drawings was produced for this project, from rough sketches to detailed plans. This is a highly finished ‘presentation drawing’ and would have been shown to the clients to convince them of the beauty of the scheme and the skill of the architect. However, in this instance it was not enough. The clients proved so indecisive that the church was built only in 1818, to a subsequent architect’s design.","physicalDescription":"Drawing in pen and ink, pencil and watercolour showing a section through a domed chuch.  The walls which have been 'cut through' are coloured pink and the church interior is modelled in grey and yellow.  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