Variant designs for a vestibule with recesses level to the central bay, 2 April 1803 (2)

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / Variant designs for a vestibule with recesses level to the central bay, 2 April 1803 (2)

Browse

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)
      - Doric Vestibule, 1803-1805 (70)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM (12) volume 73/71 (13) volume 73/72

Purpose

Variant designs for a vestibule with recesses level to the central bay, 2 April 1803 (2)

Aspect

12 Section looking east 13 Section looking north, showing the same design as drawing 12; rough pencil details and elevation

Scale

(12-13) bar scale

Inscribed

12 The Bank Vestibule next Princes Street, section labelled: Paving of Barrack Court and some dimensions given, (Soane, feint pencil) No steps use orig[inal]l --- (illegible), omit angle & put ante, Why is base / in (?)middle / ---- --- (illegible) 13 The Bank Vestibule next Princes Street, [top] of tooled Plinth, level of Drawing off[ice], 30: 5½ supposed height of Cornice of Barrack Court, some dimensions, (Soane, pencil) Qy, Qy Blocks and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(12) April 2^nd 1803 (13) April 2^nd 1803

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Notes

Drawings 12 and 13 show the inclusion of a Doric order with a fluted upper 2/3, a feature that was kept in the remaining designs and for the executed building.

While working on the Doric Vestibule, Soane was also designing the adjacent Waiting Room Court and the Accountants Office (see other sub-schemes). The loggia to the Waiting Room Court is shown to the right on drawing 13. That design is a variant of the single-storey loggia.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).