[5] Alternative design for the rooms in the entrance building, by Robert Taylor c. 1774 , with alterations by Soane's office, 1789

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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 (1356)
    - 1788-1793 Initial assessment of existing buildings and minor alterations (74)
      - Entrance building, September 1789 (8)

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SM 1/1/3

Purpose

[5] Alternative design for the rooms in the entrance building, by Robert Taylor c. 1774 , with alterations by Soane's office, 1789

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Story, as / in its present State

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, Bank of England, M^r Billings Room, Study, Office, Eating Room, and with dimensions in pen and some dimensions of partitions in pencil

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, grey and pink washes, pricked for transfer, on laid paper (333 x 549)

Hand

Taylor office and Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the entrance building as altered by Robert Taylor, c. 1774. Taylor converted the first storey to two residential apartments. He split the building into virtually two separate buildings, adding another stair to provide access to the second apartment. Soane altered them again in September 1789 but he kept the dividing wall and the apartments. The inscriptions on the drawing date from 1789, with Mr Newland's Kitchen noted on the chamber storey (Abraham Newland was the Chief Cashier of the Bank from 1778 to 1807). The drawing was probably reused by Soane's office as a survey of the existing building.

The drawing was attributed to the office of Sir Robert Taylor by Richard Garnier in 1999.

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Drawing

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