Ballrooms

NOTES: This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure.

NOTES: The Guildhall was built in 1724 to designs said to be by Thomas White. The Assembly Room, on the top floor, was remodelled by George Byfield in 1791. This apparently unexecuted design for alterations was probably produced between 1845 (when the lithographers' name Day & Son came into use) and 1859 (when Henry Rowe senior died). In the 1870s Henry Rowe junior, then the city architect, worked with Sir George Gilbert Scott on alterations to the Assembly Rooms.

NOTES: The building Included a subscription library, the Literary and Philosophical Society museum, concert rooms, and other function rooms. It was demolished in 1898 to make way for police and court buildings.

NOTES: The Assembly Rooms were designed by Jeptha Pacey based on earlier designs (1813) by William Atkinson.

NOTES: Originally Hoffman's Cafeteria, it later became the Warsaw Ballroom and then opened as a club in 1987.

NOTES: These were designed as assembly rooms, the designs being exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1838 and 1839.

NOTES: This drawing is from an album of designs and sketches by Hunt, who appears to have been an amateur architect. None of these designs are known to have been executed. The drawings seem to date from the mid-1760s to the mid-1790s.

NOTES: This drawing is from an album of designs and sketches by Hunt, who appears to have been an amateur architect. None of these designs are known to have been executed. The drawings seem to date from the mid-1760s to the mid-1790s.

NOTES: This drawing is from an album of designs and sketches by Hunt, who appears to have been an amateur architect. None of these designs are known to have been executed. The drawings seem to date from the mid-1760s to the mid-1790s.