[1] Design for the new iron railing at the north-west corner, January 1807

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  - 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)
      - Improvements to streets, 1807 and 1810 (6)

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Reference number

SM 9/3/13

Purpose

[1] Design for the new iron railing at the north-west corner, January 1807

Aspect

N^o 2 / Plan shewing the new Iron Railing &c / about the Bank in Lothbury & / Princes Street, with the dimensions / of the different Streets &c

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

as above, (The act begins at N^o 7), Lothbury, Bartholomew Lane, N^o 63 / East End of N^o63, Threadneedle Street, Bank Street, Royal Exchange, Princes Street, M^rHancock's House, Grocer's Hall, Grocer's Hall Garden, M^r Payne (twice), M^rBurchall, Church Passage, Old Jewry, N^o1 M^r Barrett, N^o2 M^r (?)Lessan, N^o3 M^r Freebain, N^o4 M^r Hinkman, N^o 5, N^o6 M^rDavid, N^o7 M^r Yeathered, N^o8, Covered Way, Founders' Hall Court, Church Passage, Token House Yard, Whalebone Court, and calculations and dimensions given

Signed and dated

Jan^y29^th 1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey, brown, pink and green washes, within single ruled wash paper, on wove paper (720 x 1260)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

Joseph Ruse Tovill Mill Maidstone 18 (sheet trimmed)

Notes

In 1807 it was decided that a railing should be erected at the north-west corner of the Bank, separating the Bank's grounds from the public Princes Street and Lothbury. Again in March 1809, the directors decided that a railing should be installed at the front of the Bank, on Threadneedle Street, and on St Bartholomew's Lane 'for the purpose of doing away the inconveniencees and nuisances now sustained by fruiterers, porters, etc., placing their goods and parcels on the stonework.' (Committee of Building minutes)

Literature

W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from within, Oxford, 1931, p. 402

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Drawing

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