Working drawing for Bullion Office with three barrel vaults, 28 April 1807

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- 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)
      - Bullion Office, 1807-1808 (6)

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Reference number

SM (4) volume 42/185

Purpose

Working drawing for Bullion Office with three barrel vaults, 28 April 1807

Aspect

4 Plan, longitudinal section with 3 arches without impost mouldings, cross section and (pencil) detail of Girder; (verso) plans of piers showing a five-sided pier with three flutes each with a cable insert

Inscribed

as above, (Soane): Arch Concentric with windows, Brick, make these piers to project equally (1:0) the level of the / old wall (?) matches to / ----even into / the Recesses BBB, Stone arch, Stone Spr[ing], 1 foot on its face, Inverted Arch, Bullion Office

Signed and dated

Bank / Ap^l 28 1807

Hand

Soane

Watermark

C Patch 1794

Notes

Drawing 4 shows Soane's rough design for the construction of a Bullion Office similar to the design shown in drawings 1 and 3. Two semicircular-headed arches separate three barrel-vaults centred on windows facing the Bullion Court. As opposed to drawings 1 and 3, however, the piers supporting the arches are fluted and cabled five-sided piers.

Abramson notes that 'In the late Bank of England transfer halls [including the Bullion Office] Soane was following up earlier experiments with continuous semicircular arches' also used later for the stables at Chelsea Hospital and for Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Literature: D. Abramson, Building the Bank of England: money, architecture, society 1694-1942, 2005, p.179, fig. 217

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