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Reference number

SM (16) 10/7/7 (17) 10/7/8 (18) volume 72/31

Purpose

Presentation drawings for desks in the Pay Hall, two dated January and May 1810 (3)

Aspect

16 Ground floor plan 17 Plan of the Pay Hall shewing the different offices 18 Ground floor plan

Scale

(16-17) bar scale (18) to a scale

Inscribed

16 Bank of England, Pay Hall, Lobby to Court Room, and (Soane): Presented to the Committee / Jan: 1810, Bullion Court, 6 pay clerks now five, 4 Cashiers for paying notes / & inspectors behind, (pencil) Stair, Solid, Bill office, Bill clerks, Lobby / to / Treas[ury] and some dimensions given 17 as above, Drawing Office, Clearer's Office, Cashier's Desk, Bill Office, Public Desk, Bank Note Pay Office, Post Bill Office, Out-teller's Desk, In-teller's Desk (twice), Public Drawing Office, (pencil): 5 & 6 Pay Clerks, 4 Cashiers, Qy / Spare Room / for / in-tellers, Door, Bill off[ice], Strong Iron ---- (illegible, safe?), desk, Present bill office, Bill office, area as present, 41'9" Run of desks, Interior to ---- office / as approved by the / Committee, Run of desks ---- / 56 feet, Clearers, Present / 22:8 Run of desks, 22:2 ---, 30:8 Run of desks, ---- Area / 197:0 and some dimensions given 8 centre of / Bullion Court, stove

Signed and dated

  • (16) as above, January 1810 (17) May 24 1810

Hand

(16-17) Soane and Soane office (18) Soane office

Watermark

(17) Ruse & Turners 1805

Notes

Drawing 16 was presented to the Building Committee in January 1810. Desks were added in the office directly north of the Pay Hall, with a stair enclosed by a partition on the east side of the office (right-hand side of drawing) and a spiral stair on the west corner of the office. A lobby to the Treasury (right-hand side of drawing) is included in the proposed alterations. The spiral stair was built.

Drawing 17 shows the Pay Hall divided into several areas for public banking. Soane constantly had to make temporary office space for those displaced clerks whose offices were being repaired or rebuilt. Drawing 17 may show such a temporary arrangement (the Bank Stock Office roof was repaired in 1810), but it is more probably a permanent layout of the desks in the Pay Hall, serving several public banking functions.

The survey (drawing 18) shows a stove in the centre of the Pay Hall, as in drawing 17.

Level

Drawing

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