[19] Design of the Grocers Company garden after the proposed Princes Street, 1800

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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)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - Acquiring property for the north-west extension, 1800-1803 (23)

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[19] Design of the Grocers Company garden after the proposed Princes Street, 1800

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Perspective looking west of the proposed Princes Street and Bank beyond, showing a tall triumphal arch-like entrance with four Corinthian columns in antis surmounted by entablature and quadriga, flanked by an unadorned screen wall with blind pedimented windows

Inscribed

View of the proposed New Boundary Wall &c / to the "Garden" of the Grocers Company

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields April 1^st 1800

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

J Whatman 1794

Notes

The City of London's City Lands Committee ordered in May 1800 that the Bank acquire a corner of the Grocers' Company Garden, to accommodate a reconfigured Princes Street and expanded Bank. In June 1800 Parliament passed a Bill supporting the City of London's decision. In return for the corner of land, the Bank paid £6,800 and gave the Grocers' Company a small piece of property to the north of the Grocers' Hall.

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