[5] Preliminary column-flue design with studies in Soane's hand, 21 January 1792

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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)
    - 1791-1801 Rebuilding of offices in the east wing and north-east extension (431)
      - Bank Stock Office, 1791-1793 (73)
        Preliminary column-flue designs, November 1791 to c. March 1792 (8)

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Reference number

SM volume 74/17

Purpose

[5] Preliminary column-flue design with studies in Soane's hand, 21 January 1792

Aspect

Longitudinal section looking west with ornamental studies and (verso) sketch plan for oval vaulting in Soane's hand

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Place this window / flush with the / outside, See Temple of the Winds, dimensions given and (verso) Section of the Bank Stock Office, (pencil) dimensions given

Signed and dated

(verso) Jan^y 21 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pale red ink and sepia wash on wove paper with three fold marks (509 x 638)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing closely follows the last triple-lanern drawing (SM volume 74/18). It keeps the central stove and column-flue, the rectangular fenestration in the central lantern, and the pilasters running down to the floor. It also incorporates Soane's important sketched amendment in SM volume 74/18 to cover the end-bay lanterns, replacing them with clerestory thermal windows, and also eliminating the round-headed niches in the wall and making the column-flue more Tuscan than Doric. The sketch plan on the verso shows Soane experimenting with oval vaulting in the hall's end bays, having not yet settled on the eventually realised cross-vaults.

The sketches made with pen in the left-hand side of the drawing shows Soane beginning to work out the decorative scheme including, as realised, the triple-fluted pilasters raised up on piers and the Greek-key entablature moulding from the Athenian Tower of the Winds, and, unrealised, a Vitruvian-scroll moulding at the rim of the central oculus. The rough sketches also show the idea in the left bay to lower the vaulting and flatten the roof (eventually realised), and in the right bay the idea (also realised) to make a more semicircular lower arch.

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