[47] Designs for chimney piece and flues

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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 (1356)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (431)
      - Bank Stock Office, 1791-1793 (73)
        Designs for the heating system, c 1792-93 (5)

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Reference number

SM volume 74/36

Purpose

[47] Designs for chimney piece and flues

Aspect

Plans, sections and elevations for north-wall chimney piece and flues

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Bank Stock Office, Elevation of external Projection to receive / Flues of the Stoves and / Revolutions for warm Air to be / conveyed into the Office, Section through Line G H, 1^st Plan, Plan to Cellar of B S Office, 3r^d Plan, Plan of Flues, 2^nd Plan, Plan of Chimney Piece and Projection / to receive Flues

Signed and dated

datable to 1792-93

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pale red pen, sepia, yellow ochre, burnt sienna washes on wove paper with one fold mark (643 x 508)

Hand

attributed to William Lodder (assistant 1789-?) or Charles Ebdon (assistant 1791-1792)

Notes

This drawing depicts the chimney piece and accompanying flues built at the north end of the Bank Stock Office, as well as a locked, grated entrance into the cellar below. The flues connected to the hypocaust system depicted in SM volume 74/34, conducting hot air and smoke generated by the firebox in the centre of the cellar, as seen in SM volume 74/35, up through the north wall and out of the building. SM volume 74/37 clearly shows the chimney piece and cellar door in relation to the built hall.

It also appears that the hot air pipes embedded in the north wall and running exposed across the front of the chimney piece might have helped warm the hall. Additionally or alternatively, the chimney piece may have been a working fireplace, holding a bed of hot coals in a raised grate.

Literature

T. Willmert, 'Heating methods and their impact on Soane's work: Lincoln's Inn Fields and Dulwich Picture Gallery', Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, 52/1, March 1993, p. 32, fig. 8

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Drawing

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