Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Minor alterations: Armoury, stoves, Governor's Room and Garden Court, 1788-93 (8)

Purpose

Minor alterations: Armoury, stoves, Governor's Room and Garden Court, 1788-93 (8)

Signed and dated

  • Main Year: 0

Notes

Soane became surveyor of the Bank in October 1788. He met regularly with the Bank's Building Committee to propose new designs and receive orders of necessary building works. Many of his early tasks included general repairs such as re-painting railings, re-paving entrances and installing new windows. Soane's ambitions as an architect sometimes materialised in the form of unsolicited plans, such as a design for altering the Garden Court. Generally, however, he responded to the needs and requests of the Bank's directors.

Madeleine Helmer, 2010

Level

Group

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).  


Contents of Minor alterations: Armoury, stoves, Governor's Room and Garden Court, 1788-93 (8)