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  • image SM (3) 2/4/7

Reference number

SM (3) 2/4/7

Purpose

Variant design, c. June 1816

Aspect

3 Plan of the Reduced Annuities Office

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

The Bank of England, Part of the Garden Court

Signed and dated

  • datable to c. June 1816

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Drawing 3 shows the offices of drawings 1 and 2 together. The position of the central stove in the Reduced Annuities Office has been slightly altered in drawing 3 (compared to drawing 1).

The wall that had been moved in the previous designs, from the the line of Soane's columns, further north so that the Armory size was reduced, has been (lightly drawn or rubbed out), indicating that Soane experimented with the idea of completely merging the two rooms.

Level

Drawing

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