Site record drawings and one design, 3 August 1816 (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)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Office over the Reduced Annuity Office, 1816 (34)

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Reference number

SM (8) volume 46/23 (9) 2/3b/2 (10) volume 45/27 (11) volume 46/24

Purpose

Site record drawings and one design, 3 August 1816 (3)

Aspect

8 Rough perspective showing The 3^dand 4^th, courses of stone on the West side 9 Plan of the New Office over the Cheque Office, and two longitudinal sections 10 Plan showing the Corner stones, looking into the Garden Court, Plan showing One of the piers and a perspective shewing stones looking into Prince Street, New Office Over Cheque Office 11 Perspective showing the Stones at the North-West angle

Scale

(9) bar scale

Inscribed

8 as above, For the thickness, see the preceeding plan. and some dimensions given 9 as above, on the line A.B. looking into Princes Street, on the line C.D looking into Garden, Bank of England and some dimensions given 10 as above, Bank of England and some dimensions given 11 as above and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

(8) August 3^d, 1816 (9) August 4 1816 (11) August 7^th. 1816

Hand

(9-10) Soane office (8,11) Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-20)

Notes

Drawing 8 records the exact dimensions of the two courses of stone masonry bricks that make up the lower part of the west wall (bordering Princes Street). The drawing may be a record of work measured for quantities in relation to invoicing. It corresponds to the left-hand perspective shown in drawing 9 and to that shown in drawing 10.

Drawing 9 shows a plan with a chimney on each side. Two longitudinal walls are shown in perspective to the side: the left-hand shows the west wall bordering Princes Street, and includes iron tie rods securing the bricks and spaces left for floor beams. The right-hand perspective shows the east wall, bordering the Garden Court, again with iron tie rods and gaps for the segemntal-arch windows.

Drawing 10 shows the same perspective as that on the left of drawing 9, with wooden planks inserted into spaces (presumably to stabilise the masonry until floor beams could be added). In all three drawings the dimensions of the bricks are individually marked, suggesting that the drawings were made when the material was in place, as a survey of what had been carried out by the builders.

Drawing 11 shows the west wall, as in drawings 8 to 10, but from an exterior perspective. A stone block is shown amongst the bricks, placed in order that the stone cladding (part of which is shown attached further up) could be attached to the brick wall with a pin from one piece of stonework to the next. A masonry pier and the lower part of the stone wall have been added on top of the bricks, tied together with cramp and lead-filled grooves.

Level

Drawing

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