Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
A key AA and B referring to the plan: AA These parts to be added to the Garden belonging to the Worshipful Company of Grocers / agreeable to the first proposition // B. This wall to be built with a communication into Princes Street / the difference in value between the Ground mark'd AA and the Ground taken from / the Grocers Garden partly forming the communication of Princes Street and partly added / to the Bank mark'd with the letters CD to be assessed and paid for. Plan labelled: The Grocers Company's / Garden, Upper Beadles House / of the Grocers Company, this part of Princes Street to be shut up, Lothbury, Entrance to the Bank from Lothbury, Founders Hall Court, Token House Yard, St Bartholomew's Lane, Church, court (twice), Cock Tavern, Chapel Court, The Royal Exchange, The Bank / Coffee House, Threadneedle Street, Sun Fire Office, Bank Street, Princes Street and the numbers of holdings on the site of the proposed North West Extension
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, grey, blue, yellow and pink washes, and pencil, within single ruled wash border, on wove paper (875 x 1510)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing, SM 9/3/19, SM 9/3/12 and SM 9/3/8 show variant designs for the screen wall on the north side of the Bank, on Lothbury Street. The designs include a grandiose projecting blind portico in the centre of the wall. The pavilion-like projection consisted of four raised columns in antis framed by pilasters and surmounted by a dome. The drawings show slightly varying designs for the dome.
Literature: W. Marston Acres, The Bank of England from within, Oxford, 1931. pp. 397, 476-477
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of
Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and
fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing
process).
