Design showing library with a lantern over the central bay, 22 November 1797

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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)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (430)
      - Library, November 1797 -1799 (14)

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Reference number

SM (4) 10/5/10

Purpose

Design showing library with a lantern over the central bay, 22 November 1797

Aspect

4 Transverse section looking east of the Library and part-section looking east of the Consols Transfer Office

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

4 Library, The Latitudinal Section, The Bank of England, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(4) Lincolns Inn Fields / Nov^r22 1797

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 4 shows a three storey building of three bays, with a lantern surmounting the middle bay. The basement is not shown. The narrow central bay serves partly as an internal light well, with, at each leve, an opening in the floor to permit light to penetrate the storey below. The north and east sides of the library faced the window-less screen wall on Bartholomew and Lothbury Street, necessitating the inclusion of top lighting. A narrow circulation corridor and railing encircles each opening, facilitating movement between the archived ledgers and documents. Semicircular barrel vaults flank the central space on the top floor and the bottom two floors are shown with segmental arched ceilings, presumably cross-vaults. The section shows windows at an angle in the south, suggesting that this design is not for a rectilinear building.

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