[19] Working drawing for later south-east Transfer Office basement, 17 February 1818

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- Bank of England
  - Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1356)
    - 1817-1833 Rebuilding of offices in the south-east and the façade, temporary office spaces and presentation drawings (221)
      - South and south-east Transfer Offices, 1817-23 (115)

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Reference number

SM volume 74/109

Purpose

[19] Working drawing for later south-east Transfer Office basement, 17 February 1818

Aspect

Plan

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

Plan of the Basement Story 3 per Cent Reduced annuity Office, The Bank of England and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

17 Feb: 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing is similar to SM volume 74/108 but a doorway on the left has been introduced (the grey wash of the walls has been erased) and a doorway which must have originally been intended on the right-hand side has been filled in, in slightly darker grey wash. However, the final position of the door is in the same position as SM volume 74/108.

In each of the corners of the plan in this drawing there are small squares, coloured blue. As noted for the Consols Transfer Office (see SM volume 74/69, SM volume 74/61, SM volume 74/63, SM volume 74/60, SM volume 74/62 and SM volume 74/68), Soane used iron 'straps' to add support for the dome of that Office. C.R. Cockerell (1788-1863) (Soane's successor at the Bank) described 'An iron strap' which was 'passed behind and along the diagonal ridge, separating the spandrels or segments of the groin, and attached to the central end of the ridge and carried down under the stones of the impost pier, in order that their weight might tie that end of the iron securely, and resist any shrinking of the groin'. It seems that the four coloured squares may denote iron supports, as suggested by Abramson for the Consols Transfer Office, carried 'down under the stones of the impost pier'.

Literature

D. Abramson, 'C.R. Cockerell's architectural progress of the Bank of England', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 37, 1994, p.125

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Drawing

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