[11] Design for the Discount Office with north and south arms separated from the central area by segmental arches, and design for the lobby with a lantern, 18 November 1805

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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)
      - Discount Office and Long Passage, 1805-1806 (31)

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Reference number

SM volume 75/9

Purpose

[11] Design for the Discount Office with north and south arms separated from the central area by segmental arches, and design for the lobby with a lantern, 18 November 1805

Aspect

Section of the Discount Office looking north; section of the Discount Office lobby looking north; part-section of the lobby; (pencil) plan of the lantern; (verso) rough (pencil) plan of the Long Passage and adjacent stair; part-cross section of the lobby; and longitudinal section of the lobby

Scale

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Inscribed

The Bank, Sections of Discount Office and Lobby thereto, sections labelled (Soane): Governors Room, Coffee Room, Circle (twice), Square (twice), (capitals) No clerk to be a jobber and dimensions given

Signed and dated

Nov: 18: 1805

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Watermark

1802

Notes

This drawing and SM volume 75/79 show the clerestory windows raised to a height above the ceiling with the brick masonry forming an angled path for light to shed into the room. This drawing is a modified copy of SM volume 75/7 and includes, in Soane's hand, a circular lantern on a square base. The Long Passage is on the right-hand side of the section, as a tall building with clerestory lighting.

The notice, 'No clerk to be a jobber', is written on the wall of the lobby. The same notice was painted on the walls of the Rotunda and the transfer offices in 1801 (Acres, p. 357). The verso of the drawing has a part-plan of the Long Passage with a reflected ceiling plan of the corridor's top lighting.

Literature

M. Acres, The Bank of England from within, 1931

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