Scale
1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Bk Sk / Office, uncertain, Bartholomew Lane, Vestibule, Chief / Clerk (twice), a key of AA Offices for Principle Clerks / B Fire place / C Flue brought into back wall, (pencil, added later) 1st idea Bank Stock Office, a calculation and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- (Soane, added later) 1792
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen, hatching, pricked for transfer on laid secretary paper with two fold marks (321 x 201)
Hand
George Dance (1741-1825)
Watermark
Britannia with spear, shield and olive brach in crowned roundel and a bell below, and part of W
Notes
This drawing represents a more polished version of the plan on SM archive 14/80/1, with the north end clearly articulated with round, top-lit, corner offices for the chief clerks (as labelled and inscribed). In the centre of the north end, a labelled fireplace faces onto and heats the public centre-aisle, ringed by counters running between the piers. The fireplace flue rises up and is brought back into the hall's north wall, as labelled on the plan, creating a clear passage between the private corner offices. The plan also shows the Bank Stock Office's relation to the east wing's vestibule, Rotunda, and the adjoining Four Per Cent Office. Although drawn freehand (and hence described as 'rough'), the plan is to scale.
Level
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