[32] Working drawing for the first phase of the north-west extension

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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)
    - 1799-1810 Expansions north-west and rebuilding of existing offices (487)
      - First phase of north-west extension: Waiting Room Court, Accountants Office and Doric Vestibule, 1801-1804 (111)

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Reference number

SM volume 63/122

Purpose

[32] Working drawing for the first phase of the north-west extension

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

to a scale

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing, SM volume 73/16, SM volume 73/18 and SM volume 73/20 closely resemble the executed design in all areas except for the Waiting Room Court. In all four drawings the Court is shown with a colonnade while the south-west corner is rounded and includes a window. Sited between the old and new buildings, the Court's design had to reconcile the axis of the existing buildings with the juxtaposing aligment of the new wing (which are all squared with the new loggia).

A closet beside the Princes Street entrance contained a windlass for shutting the door. A windlass is a simple pully system for hoisting heavy objects. A rope is coiled around a cylinder mounted on a wooden frame, with a crank at one end for the winding and unwinding of the rope. The windlass usually occured on construction sites as an important machine for raising masonry and building materials (see SM 69/12) but it was also used, as shown in SM volume 73/16, for sliding an iron door into place over the Princes Street entrance.

Literature

C. Woodward, Buildings in progress: Soane's views of construction, an exhibition catalogue for the Sir John Soane's Museum, 1995, p.10 (windlass) ? is this right ? and not one of the drawings catalogued here is reproduced on p.10 ?

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Drawing

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