Working drawings and details of the niche containing the statue of King Edward VI on the east front, Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire, for the 7th Earl of Bridgewater: elevation and section of the niche

NOTES: The house was built around 1815 for William Hallett by Sir Jeffry Wyatville.

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 statue was by Richard Westmacott.

NOTES: The statue was by Richard Westmacott. Amongst the foliage can be seen the architect's initials surmounting a group of drawing instruments and the client's initials (Egerton, John [with I for J] William) surmounted by a coronet.