[106] Variant design for the lobby at the east end of the loggia

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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)
      - First phase of north-west extension: Waiting Room Court, Accountants Office and Doric Vestibule, 1801-1804 (111)

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Reference number

SM volume 72/25

Purpose

[106] Variant design for the lobby at the east end of the loggia

Aspect

Plan with laid out sections; and full size detail of an architrave

Scale

to a scale and full size

Inscribed

as above, The Bank / Lobby at the End of Loggia next Cheque Office, Floor of Discount Office, Floor of Accountants Office, Stone (four times), Loggia, door to proposed / discount office, Lobby, Door to Acc[ountan]^ts/ Office, Door into / Cheque / Office, A, Concentric, Tympanum / Sunk 4½ inches / from the part / that corresponds / with B, Architrave and dimensions given

Hand

Soane office

Notes

In this drawing, SM volume 73/103, SM volume 72/26 and SM volume 73/104 the lobby at the east end of the loggia is shown with variant top-lighting. In this drawing and SM volume 73/104, the room is lit by a lantern. SM volume 73/103 (and one of the sections in this drawing) shows a bell light. A lunette from the loggia is shown overlooking the single-storey lobby in this drawing and SM volume 73/103. SM volume 72/26 has a domed lantern on shallow pendentives. The exterior walls of the surrounding buildings are included in the section, showing lunettes on all three sides over-looking the single-storey lobby. It is clear from all four drawings that some rooms have strategically low ceilings so as to afford clerestory windows in the adjacent rooms.

The pencil inscriptions on SM volume 73/103 are unrelated to the drawings. 'Mr Russell' could refer to Thomas Russell Smith, who worked for Soane at the Bank from 1788 as well as Dulwich, 1811-15, and 12 and 14 Lincolns Inn Fields, 1793-4 and 1823-6, respectively (Bolton, p. 61; Dean, pp. 45, 55, 93). 'Mr Norris' could refer to a Mr Norris who owned property two doors down from the National Debt Redemption Office on Old Jewry (See SM 9/1/4).

Literature

A. Bolton, The Works of Sir John Soane, 1924
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and London, 2006

Level

Drawing

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