[40] Site record drawing of the south front and south-west corner, showing the construction and masonry of the old wall, October 1824

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  - 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 volume 71/17

Purpose

[40] Site record drawing of the south front and south-west corner, showing the construction and masonry of the old wall, October 1824

Aspect

View of the third pedestal from the south-west corner

Inscribed

Sketch of 3^rd Pedestal North West Wing [sic] from / Princes Street, Bank of England

Signed and dated

Oct^r 22^nd1824

Hand

Edward Davis (Soane pupil 1824-6)

Notes

Construction for the west end of the south front began after construction had begun on the east end (see SM volume 71/15, see SM volume 71/22, see SM volume 71/23 and see SM volume 71/24). The east end was older, built in 1765, than the west end, completed 1787, and was therefore in worse condition and in more urgent need of repair. The west end of the south front was built by Taylor in the 1780s as the screen wall for the south-west wing, enclosing the Garden Court and its surrounding Offices. This drawing, SM volume 71/18, SM volume 71/19, SM volume 71/20 and SM volume 71/21 are pupils' drawings of the westward Taylor wall as it was demolished. Their drawings show the masonry exposed beneath the stone cladding. The squared corner of Taylor's screen wall, shown in SM volume 71/21, was rounded-off just as the south-east corner had been built a year earlier (see SM volume 71/15, see SM volume 71/22, see SM volume 71/23 and see SM volume 71/24).

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