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Reference number

SM volume 75/40

Purpose

[9] Working drawing for the Rustic Lobby, 21 November 1807

Aspect

Ground floor plan and three sections

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

Plan & Sections of Rustic Lobby, Bank, lettered A to D, The Door AAAA 3'1"½ in / the rough Brickwork, Section AB, (Soane) Plan of Rustic Lobby and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • Novr 21st 1807

Hand

Soane office and Soane

Notes

The Rustic Lobby is located at the west end of the Directors' offices. It has shallow coffered barrel vaults to either side of the top-lit hall. The upper storey is surmounted by a circular glazed lantern on shallow pendentives. Soane's alterations to this drawing show a ledge below the clerestory windows supported on consoles and with coffered soffits. Another shelf surrounds the lantern. These are a recurring aspect of Soane's lanterns, providing just enough space for a window-washer (Yerbury and Steele, p. 12).

Level

Drawing

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