Scale
(22-23) bar scale
Inscribed
22 as above, The Bank of England, Entrance / from Vestibule next / Princes Street, Tellers, Passage 8 feet wide, Principal, The Private Drawing Office 47.0" by 22.6" in Principal / Old Office... 738.0 ... New Office 1187.6, Counter (twice), Desks, Public Drawing Office / 22.6 by 22.6 / old office 14/0" by 13.0 = 182.0, Entrance / from Lobby opposite / the accountants Drawing Office, Bill Office 25.0" by 25.0" = /625.0 / old office 32.6" by 13.0 = /422.6, Part of the Machine Room / for numbering Bank Notes, Court, Part of the old £5 Note Office and some dimensions given
23 Bank of England, Part of old £5 Note / office, new office 11.50 / old office... 738, Principal, New Private new / drawing Office 11.50, Old do, Into Princes Street Vestibule, Qy desk (twice), desk (twice), Office / Counter, Passage / 10:7 / the same width as / the passage between the / Bank note / Pay Clerks / & the post / bill office, space for the tellers - at present there are 12 Tellers in three diff parts, of this / if Fire place / remains, it / will reduce / the sittings / for the Teller / to 12 the same / number they / now are, Public D. O', Bill Office, 380 feet sup, Old Office, Fireplace, Ent[rance], Part of the / machine there / for the number / of the Bank / notes, Bill Office, The Public Drawing / Office, Into Passage / opposite / accts. drawg. / Office and some dimensions and calculations given
Signed and dated
- (22) February 1829 (23) L. I. Fields / 6 Feby: 1829
Hand
Soane office
Level
Drawing
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural,
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scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to
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it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance
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