Preliminary design for a vestibule with paired Doric columns, and stairs ascending to the north and south recesses

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - 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)
      - Doric Vestibule, 1803-1805 (70)

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Reference number

SM (4) volume 73/69

Purpose

Preliminary design for a vestibule with paired Doric columns, and stairs ascending to the north and south recesses

Aspect

4 Section looking north; rough detail; and (feint pencil) elevation of a door

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

section labelled: Floor / Top of tooled Plinth, Pav[in]g Princes Street, (Soane) Qy / Iron / door / case &c / to slide / or wind / in to / the -- -- (illegible) / roof of / wall, Stone, perhaps to preserve the / regularity of the / Tryglyph, Col^ms / nearly not finished, Stone, Keep the antae but / do not break / entab[lature], Stone, omit rust[ication], omit Cornice / frieze, omit cap: of antae / between / the antae, Sq[ua]re (twice), Rustic[ation]

Signed and dated

datable to betwen January and March 1803

Hand

Soane and Soane office

Notes

Drawing 4 shows an early design, indicated by the domed roof, elevated recesses and the chimneypiece centred on the north wall. An earlier design made in January 1803 (SM 9/2/9, drawing 7 in 3:6) shows a similar chimneypiece on the north wall. Although the layout of the room is far from final, the rough additions to the drawing focus on the Vestibule's interior ornamentation, such as the rustication, entablatures and window

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