Record drawing showing the north-west extension as built, July 1810

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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)
      - Improvements to streets, 1807 and 1810 (6)

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Reference number

SM (6) 1/8/12

Purpose

Record drawing showing the north-west extension as built, July 1810

Aspect

6 A Birds Eye View of the Bank of England

Scale

as above

Signed and dated

June 9^th 1810

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This bird's eye view shows the Bank as it existed in 1810. The north-west wing has been built and a railing has been erected around the Tivoli Corner. The drawing reveals the Bank's variety of rooflines and top-lighting. Soane employed skylights, glazed lanterns, numerous lunettes and smaller bell-lights. Buildings surrounding the courtyards benefited from an easy lightsource with conventional windows and multiple storeys.

The two transfer halls to the south-east (upper left-hand side of drawing) are not yet rebuilt; Robert Taylor's transfer halls remained in the south-east wing until 1818. The drawing shows the old offices' small domed lanterns, as opposed to the central circular lanterns of Soane's banking halls. Robert Taylor's screen wall is also partly still intact, as shown to the left-hand side of the drawing.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001
John Soane: Reading's Architectural Hero, Reading Museum, 5 May - 2 September 2007

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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