[5] Alternative design for completing the Garden Court, May 1790

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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)
    - 1788-1793 Initial assessment of existing buildings and minor alterations (74)
      - Minor alterations: Armoury, stoves, Governor's Room and Garden Court, 1788-93 (8)

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Reference number

SM 1/2/7

Purpose

[5] Alternative design for completing the Garden Court, May 1790

Aspect

Elevation and plan of a (Bailey) Design for finishing the Eastside of the Green Court

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above and (pencil, Bolton) John Soane

Signed and dated

May 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, grey and pink washes within single wash border on wove paper (436 x 543)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

J Whatman (watermark trimmed)

Notes

The Garden Court was designed and constructed by Robert Taylor as part of his last building works in the mid 1780s. Taylor employed an Italianate arcade similar to his façades for the new wings, but the east side of the Court remained the exterior of Sampson's Pay Hall with a simple elevation and a single Venetian window. Soane sought to remedy the conflicting styles by designing an arcaded wall over the east side of the Court. This drawing shows an alternative design for this arcade, employing a blind window just as Taylor had done on the north side of the Court (between the Court Room and Committee Room windows). The balustrade resembles the balustrade elevations attributed to Taylor (see SM 1/2/3, SM 1/2/4 and SM 1/2/5).

Literature

H. Rooksby Steele and F.R. Yerbury, The Old Bank of England, 1930, pp. 4, 10, 12.

Level

Drawing

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