[7] Site progress drawing for the new passage

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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)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Rotunda vestibule and Treasury, 1814-1815 (65)

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Reference number

SM volume 70/2

Purpose

[7] Site progress drawing for the new passage

Aspect

Interior perspective of arch within passage under construction, taken on the line A B of SM volume 70/1

Scale

to scale

Inscribed

as above, a key of A bar of iron over arch, stone (three times), dimensions given

Signed and dated

datable to late 1814 (see note below)

Hand

Soane office

Notes

Due to the extension of the Treasury and the pre-existing structure of the vestibule, the new passage was a tight space and driven diagonally between the Treasury and Three Per Cent Office into the semicircular alcove in the south west corner of the Rotunda.

SM volume 70/9, SM volume 70/8, SM volume 70/11, SM volume 70/14 and SM volume 70/13 show the point at which the passage turns at a forty-five degree angle. The views show the structure to be built of brick and stone with arches leading the passage into the diagonal route. The original vestibule could not be knocked down completely because it was integrated with other buildings. Thus, the diagonal passage had to be built by breaking through the existing masonry and brickwork of the south west corner of the Rotunda.

The drawings are in an octavo sketchbook inscribed on the first page; Sketches of the New Entrance / to the Rotunda at the Bank / from the Pay Hall Court / made during the progress of / the Works in the year 1814-1815. The drawings seem to be ordered chronologically within the volume which means this drawing, SM volume 70/7, SM volume 70/1, SM volume 70/9 and SM volume 70/8 can be dated to late 1814 as they appear before SM volume 70/11 dated Dec^r 23^rd 1814.

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Drawing

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