Variant designs for the later south Transfer Office basement, one dated 31 August 1821 (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)
    - 1817-1833 Rebuilding of offices in the south-east and the façade, temporary office spaces and presentation drawings (219)
      - South and south-east Transfer Offices, 1817-23 (115)

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Reference number

SM (97) volume 74/132 (98) volume 74/130 (99) volume 74/133

Purpose

Variant designs for the later south Transfer Office basement, one dated 31 August 1821 (3)

Aspect

97-99 Plan

Scale

(97-99) bar scale

Inscribed

97 Plan of the Basement Story under the New 4 P^r Cent Office, The Bank of England, Q^y Arch (twice) and some dimensions given 98 Plan of the Basement Story under the / New Four per Cent Office, Plan N^o. 2, The Bank of England and some dimensions given 99 New 3½ per Cent, Basement Story, The Bank of England and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(98) Bank 31 August 1821

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawings 97 to 99 show a similar layout to that of drawings 95 and 96.

Drawing 97 shows a door on west side (left), a pipe leaving room at east wall (right) and an alternative pipe system sketched in pencil, differing from the previous foundation plans for the south Transfer Office (drawings 92 and 94). Soane's proposed piers are marked out (without wash). Building materials appear to be indicated by coloured wash: grey wash presumably denoting stone and pink, brick. None of the drawings indicate chimney flues within the piers, as the plans for the later south-east Transfer Office do.

Drawing 98 labelled plan no 2 so evidently a variant design. A door has been added on west (left) in the same position as that on drawing 97. No longitudinal foundation walls are shown however, which indicates that Soane may have intended to remove that part of the foundation as it was redundant without Taylor's columns to support. The brick pier foundations adjoining the walls also appear to have been broadened (compared to drawing 97). Drawing 99 is very similar to drawing 98 and is probably a copy.

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Drawing

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