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Reference number

SM (18) 9/2/7 (19) 9/2/4

Purpose

Record drawings of the Bank as built in 1808 (2)

Aspect

18 Ground Floor Plan 19 Plan of the One Pair Floor

Scale

(18-19) to a scale

Inscribed

18 The Bank of England, General Plan, Garden Court, Deputy Governors Room, Secretary / to Committee / of Treasury, Committee Room, Strong / Room, Court Room, Waiting Room (twice), Lobby (three times), Coffee Room, Discount Office, Committee / Room (twice), Waiting / Room (twice), Governors Room, Deputy / Accountants / Room, Ledger, Vestibule 19 as above, The Bank of England, Mr Rippon's Apartments, Mr Bruce (twice), Paved Court, Upper part of the / Pay Hall, Bullion Court, Lobby, Gallery (twice), Chancery's Exchequer Office, Accountant's Discount / Office, Will Office, Solicitor's Office, Solicitor's Deposit / for Bank paper, Lothbury Court, Court (twice), Library, Court, Accountant's Apartments, Deputy / Accountant (twice), Accountant's / Discount / Cheque / Office, Printing Office / Court, Cash Book / Office (twice), Deputy for / Bank Note Paper, Drying Room, Court, Engravers (twice), Porter, Waiting / Room, Printing Office, Court, Printing Office, Upper part of the / One & Two Pound Note / Office, Court, Drawing Office / Court, Upper Part / of the / Paved Vestibule, Upper Part / of the / Brown Vestibule, Court (twice), Garden Court and feint pencil note (?) Sub Cash

Signed and dated

  • (18) 1808

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawings 18 and 19 show the Bank as built in about 1808. The Discount Office is complete, as is the Long Passage and the directors' offices south of the Waiting Room Court (see separate schemes).

Drawing 19 shows the only general plan for the Bank's first floor. The drawing was made after the rebuilding of the directors' offices (1808) but before any alterations to the vestibule between the Rotunda and the Front Court (1814). The first floor offices at the Bank were situated around the courts. These were the only areas in the Bank where an upper storey could in fact occur, as parts of the Bank that did not face a court or a light-well had to be top-lit.

Level

Drawing

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