Richard Norman Shaw RA, Unexecuted design for a town hall and police station, Bromley, Kent: elevation of police office front and cross-section of hall, May 1863?.
Pencil, black ink and coloured washes on wove paper. 316 mm x 527 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Unexecuted design for a town hall and police station, Bromley, Kent: elevation of police office front and cross-section of hall, May 1863?
Richard Norman Shaw RA (1831 - 1912)
RA Collection: Art
This fine group of five sheets bound by glue and stitching along the left edge is Shaw's design for a town hall building for Bromley, Kent, with assembly hall, police station, shops, market and library. The design was commissioned by local estate owner Coles Child, for whom Shaw created buildings for his estate, but was not taken up by the town.
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316 mm x 527 mm
Associated works of art
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Richard Norman Shaw RA
Unexecuted design for a town hall and police station, Bromley, Kent: elevation of side next to market, May 1863?
Pencil, black ink and black and pink washes on wove paper
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Richard Norman Shaw RA
Unexecuted design for a town hall and police station, Bromley, Kent: end elevation of hall, May 1863?
Pencil and black ink and coloured washes on wove paper
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Richard Norman Shaw RA
Unexecuted design for a town hall and police station, Bromley, Kent: side elevation, May 1863?
Pencil, black ink and black and pink washes on wove paper
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