Design for the Princes Street front, 1816 (2)

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  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Façades proposals, 1814-1816 (14)

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Reference number

SM (13) 12/2/9 (14) 12/2/10

Purpose

Design for the Princes Street front, 1816 (2)

Aspect

13 Elevation of the front next Princes Street in its present state 14 Elevation of the front next Princes Street as proposed

Scale

(13) to a scale (14) bar scale

Inscribed

13 as above 14 as above, (upper case) Bank of England

Signed and dated

(13) 1816 (14) October 1816

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

(14) James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1809

Notes

The northern portion of the Princes Street screen wall (left-hand side of drawings) was built as part of the north-west extension, completed by about 1805. The southern portion of the wall was built by Robert Tayor between 1781 and 1788. The proposed design suggests stripping this Taylor wall of its terminal pavilions and raising it to the same height as the adjoining wall. The proposal requires minimal intervention, probably a result of Soane's inability to convince the Building Committee otherwise. In March 1815 his proposal for rebuilding the wall was 'postponed'.

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