• Office of Frank Loughborough Pearson (draughtsman)
• Frank Loughborough Pearson (architect)
• Luscombe and Son of Exeter (contractor)

St. Peter's Home, Woking: Plan for the corridor between the chapel and the mortuary

1898-1900

- This work is part of a group of drawings and reprographic prints of drawings for St. Peter's Home, Woking, and St. Peter's Convent, Woking, from the offices of John Loughborough Pearson and Frank Loughborough Pearson (DR1989:0015:011 - DR1989:0015:085 R/V). Composed of contract and working drawings including plans, site plans, sections, and elevations dated between 1881 and 1936, these drawings were sold at auction by the convent along with those for the older institution of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn (DR1989:0015:001 - DR1989:0015:010). Both St. Peter's Home, Kilburn, and St. Peter's Home, Woking were commissioned from John Loughborough Pearson by Benjamin Lancaster. The alterations to the Home at Kilburn were commissioned on behalf of Lancaster's wife, who founded the home and a lay nursing order which ran it. The institution at Woking was founded by Lancaster as a home for incurables in 1882 and dedicated to the memory of his deceased wife (Quiney 67-68, 254-255, and 284). It was probably first known as St. Peter's Home, Woking, not becoming a convent until ca. 1934.

• contract drawing
• dessins d'exécution

Watercolour over graphite

sheet: 50.3 x 68.9 cm

DR1989:0015:037

• line drawing

• plan (drawing)

signed and dated - by the contractor, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Luscombe and Son / 2nd Decr 1898" inscribed - by several unknown hands in graphite, u.l.: "St. Peter's Home Woking - / Corridor to Chapel + Mortuary"; and throughout: with measurements, calculations and notations concerning drawn details inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "The Specification for the New Chapel now in course / of erection to apply to these corridors. / These corridors are to be regarded as an extra upon the / Chapel contract, the price for which has been agreed upon." numbered and dated - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "195 / 24.11.98 / 205-29-11.98"

• architecture

• corridor