£4,536
Auction: Lots 1 to 266 | 17th April at 10am
a collection of 9 drawings in ink, pencil and coloured wash, each inscribed ‘Bristol Assize Courts' on unbleached tracing paper and neatly laid-down onto 9 leaves of thick paper, two framed and glazed comprising:
- Front Elevation towards Small Street, Aedes Colstoniana, 34cm x 41cm, frame 54cm x 61.4cm
- Section on line C.D., 23.5cm x 61.5cm, frame 54cm x 81cm
7 unframed
- Section on line A.B., 28cm x 41.4cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- Section on line C.D., Proposed New Assize Courts Bristol, 34cm x 39cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- Front elevation towards Small Street, 36cm x 69cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- First floor plan, 73.4 x 41.5cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- Plan of second floor fronting Small Street and Plan of First Floor, 69.7cm x 41cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- Plan of ground floor, 71cm x 46.4cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm
- Ground floor plan, 73cm x 47.3cm, sheet 52.5cm x 79cm (9)
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.