Design for the top-lighting of adjacent offices, 12 October 1805

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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)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Directors' parlours, 1805-1807 (20)

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Reference number

SM (1) volume 75/60

Purpose

Design for the top-lighting of adjacent offices, 12 October 1805

Aspect

1 Section through the Storekeeper rooms

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, (pencil) Ofi(?)c Grad (illegible) and dimensions given

Signed and dated

Bank October 12 1805

Hand

Soane office

Notes

In October 1805 Soane presented a design for moving the Storekeepers' rooms. The rooms would be relocated to a more secure area, leaving additional space for the rebuilt Directors' offices. The section in drawing 1 shows the offices as they existed before rebuilding: two Storekeepers' rooms were located between a corridor and the Governor's Room. The section could be looking south at the rooms, showing the varying ceiling heights of the extant offices and (in pencil) a suggestion for the ceiling-heights of the rebuilt offices.

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Drawing

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