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Z1142/1
Title
Printed book: The History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park, a seat of the most honourable the Marquess of Bute by Henry Shaw. Published by James Carpenter and Sons, Old Bond Street, and printed by W.Davy, printer, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square. 1829
Date free text
1827-1830
Production date
From: 1827 To: 1830
Scope and Content
Gold tooled front cover plate: Shaw’s Illustrated History of Luton Chapel
Contents include:
Title Title page - also numbered as Pl.1 “composed from ornaments and letters in various parts of the chapel”
Front Author’s dedication to the most hon. John Crichton Stuart, Marquess of Bute, 1 January 1830
i-ii Preface, 1 December 1829
1-4 Description of the chapel [recently erected for the Marquess of Bute to the designs of Robert Smirke, Jun., architect]
5-11 History and Antiquities of the Chapel at Luton Park
12-14 Copy of original deed of Consecration of Luton Chapel by the Bishop of Lincoln, 16 October 1674, and postscript concerning the antiquities of the chapel
15 List of plates
Pl.2 Ground plan of the chapel 1827
Pl.3 Section AA on plan 1827
Pl.4 Details at large 1829
Pl.5 Section BB on plan 1828
Pl.6 Section CC on plan 1827
Pl.7 Drawing of pulpit and clerk’s desk 1827
Pl.8 Section at DD on plan 1827
Pl.9 Detail of altar screen (large scale) 1828
Pl.10 Section at EE on plan 1829
Pl.11 Section at FF on plan 1827
Pl.12 Section at GG on plan 1827
Pl.13 Perspective view, looking towards the chimney piece 1828
Pl.14 Perspective view, looking towards the altar 1829
Pl.15 Principal entrance door and entrance door section BB 1827
Pl.16 Door head at large (see Pl.12) 1827
Pl.17 Door head at large (see Pl.11) 1827
Pl.18 Details at large (see Pl.6 and 11) 1829
Pl.19 Ornaments on the battlements on the south side of section at FF, and inscription on the reverse of ditto no.1 on the north side 1828
Pl.20 Patterns at large (see Pl.10) 1828
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