Description
a collection of 9 drawings in ink, pencil and coloured wash, each on unbleached tracing paper and neatly laid-down onto 7 leaves of card, comprising:
- Proposed Assize Courts, Bristol, 350 x 395mm
- Drawings showing Proposed New Roof to Guildhall Court..., 240 x 380mm; [laid onto the same sheet as] Proposed New Assize Courts Bristol, 335 x 220mm
- ...Assize Courts Bristol, 480 x 290mm; [laid onto the same sheet as] Proposed Assize Courts Bristol [Guildhall Roof], 420 x 300mm
- Proposed Assize Courts Bristol [Floor Plan], 710 x 460mm
- Proposed Assize Courts Bristol [First and Second Floor Plans], 720 x 425mm;
- Proposed Assize Courts Bristol [Floor plan], 710 x 465mm
- Proposed Assize Courts Bristol, elevation towards Small Street, 390 x 460mm
Footnote
Note: Winning the competition to build the new Northampton Town Hall at the age of twenty-nine established Godwin's reputation as a leading civic architect. He followed this with another winning town hall design for Congleton, a small town near Manchester. These successes prompted his move to London in 1865, and in 1866 Godwin, with his partner Henry Crisp, entered the competition for the building of the new Bristol Assize Courts under the nom de plume '1066' or 'Ten Hundred and Sixty-Six'. Their designs won first, second and third prizes. Despite this, and amid protestations, a second competition was order by the town council, which Godwin again entered, this time only gaining second place to an entry from Popes & Binden, which was the one finally built.
The collection on offer comprises a number of drawings from the first competition, including the original drawing