Alternative street improvements, April 1800

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Corporation of London city planning, 1800-1808 (7)

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Reference number

SM (7) 9/1/12

Purpose

Alternative street improvements, April 1800

Aspect

7 Copy of a plan for two squares north of the Bank of England and a straight Moorgate Street, showing the Bank of England before the north-west extension

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Monument yard, Bank of England, Mansion House, Royal Exchange, Guildhall, Situations for the Residences of Capital Merchants, Finsbury Square with street names including: Fish Street Hill, Grace Church Street, Leaden Hall Street, Bishopsgate Street, Old Broad Street, Cornhill, Poultry, Cheapside, Threadneedle Street, Lothbury, Princes Street, Old Jewry, Coleman Street, Ironmonger Lane, King Street, Queen Street and on backing paper: A D^r Reel Chapel

Signed and dated

Copy Lin: Inn Fields April 19 1800

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

J Bigg

Notes

Drawing 7 shows an alternative design for the street improvements, with two squares north of the Bank of England. The drawing does not show the Bank's north-west extension.

Level

Drawing

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