Presentation drawings showing variant designs, May 1797 (3)

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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)
      - Rotunda, 1794-95 (30)

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Reference number

SM (9) volume 75/96 (10) volume 75/97 (11) volume 75/98

Purpose

Presentation drawings showing variant designs, May 1797 (3)

Aspect

9 Section; and half-ground floor plan with reflected ceiling plan 10 Section; half-ground floor plan; and half-plan of the clerestory 11 Section; and half-ground floor plan with reflected ceiling plan

Scale

(9-11) to a scale

Inscribed

9 The Rotunda, Bank of England 10 The Bank of England, The Rotunda 11 (Soane, brown pen) Design laid before the Committee on Tuesday May 27. 1794 / by them approved, & proposed to the Court on / Thursday May 29: 1794 & ordered to be executed with / all possible expedition. J.S., and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(9) Lincolns Inn Fields May 31^st1794 (10) John Soane Arch., Lincolns Inn Fields May 23^d 1794 (11) John Soane Arch^t, Lincolns Inn Fields May 26 1794

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawings 9 to 11 were presented to the Building Committee on 29 May 1794 as designs for the Rotunda. As noted in the inscription, drawing 11 was approved for building & ordered to be executed with / all possible expedition. The design was presented only two weeks after the Building Committee had decided to rebuild. Drawings 9 to 11 vary only slightly in design. Drawing 10 shows a smaller door added to the plan, and the elevation includes a second layer of wall supporting half of a semicircular arch; the purpose for these inclusions is unknown. Drawings 9 to 11 show the hall's interior decoration but it was the building's construction and basic form that concerned the Committee and architect at this early stage of design.

See Soane Museum Model 606 for a model of part of the Rotunda, showing the masonry courses.

Level

Drawing

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