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Reference number

SM 9/3/12

Purpose

[6] Survey of the existing property, with preliminary design for the north-west extension and the realigned Princes Street and a design for a domed central pavilion on Lothbury Street, 1800

Aspect

Site plan of the north-east corner showing holdings and a design for the north screen wall; and elevation of proposed Lothbury Street front with domed central pavilion

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

Recd from Mr Leverton / Thursday Even: May 29: 1800, a key A to E referring to the plan: CD is to be at right Angles with AB April 22nd / E The Curve from E to D to spring from the corner of Mr Hancock's House, (Soane): The parts coloured Red and the part of the Garden through which / Princes Street is proposed to be continued contains the property / proposed to be purchased by the Bank - // Signed John Soane. Plan labelled: Lothbury (twice), Drapers Court (twice), Princes Street, Proposed continuation of Princes Street into Lothbury, The Bank of England, Grocers Company Garden, Upper Beadles House / of the Grocers Company, This part of Princes Street proposed to be shut up and small plan in upper right of sheet labelled: Mr Hancocks House, E, Circular Wall forms the West side of Princes Street

Signed and dated

  • Copy March 17th 1800

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey, pink and orange washes, and pencil, on wove paper (720 x 1020)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1794

Notes

This drawing, SM 9/3/19, SM 9/3/8 and SM 9/3/18 show variant designs for the screen wall on the north side of the Bank, on Lothbury Street. The designs include a grandiose projecting blind portico in the centre of the wall. The pavilion-like projection consisted of four raised columns in antis framed by pilasters and surmounted by a dome. The drawings show slightly varying designs for the dome.

Literature: W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from within, Oxford, 1931. pp. 397, 476-477

Level

Drawing

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