Scale
bar scale
Inscribed
The Bank of England / (Plan of part of the Principal Floor. 1832) and plan labelled: Lobby, The Court Room, Committee Room, Staircase to / cheque office / &c, Officer's / Servant, Officer's Room, Recess for Bed, Secretary of Committee / of Treasury, Barrack Court, Committee Room, Waiting Room / No (five times), Rustic Lobby, The Deupty Governor's / Room, Lobby, The Governor's Room, Part of the / Branch Bank / office, Discount Office, Door keeper's / Lobby, Coffee Room
Signed and dated
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
Smith & Allnutt 1830
Notes
The built design for the Directors' Offices is shown in a drawing from 1832. The 'Door Keeper's Lobby' (right-hand side of drawing) is the point of entry for all visitiors. From here, a long passage leads past two Waiting Rooms to another lobby that has four doors, leading to the Governor's and Deputy Governor's Rooms and the Court and Committee Rooms. Continuing west, the visitor reaches a third lobby, the 'Rustic Lobby', with doorways leading to more Waiting Rooms, a Committee Room and the office of the Secretary. Another passage continues south from here to the Garden Court, passing water closets and a stair. The stair leads up to the offices and apartments on the first floor (including the room over the Cheque Office, built in 1816).
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).
