[35] Framed record drawing of the south and east fronts as built

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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)
    - 1817-1833 Rebuilding of offices in the south-east and the façade, temporary office spaces and presentation drawings (221)
      - East, south and west façades, 1823-1828 (54)

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Reference number

SM P114

Purpose

[35] Framed record drawing of the south and east fronts as built

Aspect

Perspective from the south-east

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows the new Threadneedle Street front and includes a part of the existing entrance building. The south front is a symmetrical design, so upon construction it was mirrored to the west of the entrance building. The final design has six columns flanked by large blank doors and smaller niches. The attic shows panelled pedestals framed by fluted pilasters.

Charles Robert Cockerell altered the attic in 1858, to fortify the Bank during the Chartist Riots. The attic was raised and a new balustrade was added, with a patrol rampart and firing platforms (Abramson).

Literature

D. Abramson, Building the Bank of England, 2005, p. 200

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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