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Inscribed
(Soane) Bank of England, Submitted to the Com[mittee] & approved May 9. 1805, Floor of the Basement, Floor of the Acc[ountan] ts office, A, B, Elevation of one side of the Quadrangle / from A to B already built, Paving of the / Quadrangle three feet below the paving / of the footway in Lothbury, Section of the Room over / the officers Bedroom / &c, Elevation of the Barrack / Court, Section of the external wall, Paving of the Barrack Court, Foot paving in Lothbury and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- Lin: Inn Fields May 8: 1805
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen and grey and pink washes, on wove paper (465 x 665)
Hand
Soane office and Soane
Watermark
J Ruse 1804
Notes
This drawing and SM 1/7/12 were approved by the Building Committee in May 1805. The drawings show the Barracks on the north side of the Great Quadrangle, across from the Accountants Office. To the north, the building faced a gated courtyard on to Lothbury Street. The building is shown on the same level as Lothbury Street, 3 feet above the Great Quadrangle. Soane's alterations to the drawings suggest lowering the level of the Court so that two of the Barracks' doors face on to the Court. Other alterations show a bracketed pediment over a window on the first floor and the adjoining building is shown as double-height with a clerestory lunette and three doors on the south wall.
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