[24] Preliminary design for cellar

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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 and realised designs for cellar, c. 1792 (6)

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Reference number

SM volume 74/4

Purpose

[24] Preliminary design for cellar

Aspect

Plan [and laid-out sections] of the Cellar under the Bank Office and (verso) two rough plans, related to the recto, for pier and wall buttressing

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Bank of England, dimensions and (pencil) calculations given and (verso) Basement story / under the / Bank Stock Office, miscellaneous dimensions and financial calculations given

Signed and dated

datable to 1792

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, pale red ink and sepia wash on wove paper with six fold marks (513 x 584)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the cellar divided into three aisles, corresponding to the hall above, and four cross-vaulted bays. Corner doors connect the centre-aisle to what are essentially side rooms, as in the executed design (see SM volume 74/28). There are sketches by Soane for additional wall buttresses turning the side aisles into seven-bay spaces, as executed (see SM volume 74/21), and probably as Taylor originally had it to correspond to his seven-bay hall above. The earlier configuration of the cellar seen in SM volume 74/5 was probably adandoned for reasons of economy.

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