Scale
bar scale of 2¼ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
No3, rooms labelled: Public Hall, Office, Mr Highams / Room, 2nd Office, Strong Room, Statue, Public Hall, Counter (twice), and added by Soane: Hall / or / Entrance, Private office / for examination / of accts &c, Messenger, The [office] for Saving Bank / Debentures, [Office] for granting / Annuities and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown pen, sepia and light blue washes on wove paper (735 x 519)
Hand
George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60)
Notes
For the first time the plans include the premises belonging to Messrs Mello, Pead and Company. This makes the site almost a square with only the left-hand boundary wall askew. More offices have been provided for the different functions of the National Debt Redemption Office and the Cenotaph has been located not in the centre as before but left of centre though still on an axis with the entrance. Soane's amendments to the plan include bringing the building forward by 3 feet 4½ inches which is exactly what was gained when the back boundary wall (see SM 48/1/39 and all earlier plans) was regularized. An alternative plan for the front wall is roughed in by Soane and an office hand has drawn out three further varying designs, one for the elevation to Old Jewry and two for elevations next to Meeting House Court.
Level
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