[22] Record drawing that reconstructs Taylor's south-east Transfer Office, after 1818

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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)
    - 1817-1833 Rebuilding of offices in the south-east and the façade, temporary office spaces and presentation drawings (221)
      - South and south-east Transfer Offices, 1817-23 (115)

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Reference number

SM 1/2/16

Purpose

[22] Record drawing that reconstructs Taylor's south-east Transfer Office, after 1818

Aspect

Section

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

Section of the Office at the South East angle of the Bank (4 p^rCent)

Signed and dated

taken down in the year 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

This drawing shows a section through Taylor's south-east Transfer Office, probably worked up from an earlier sketch, after the demolition of the old office had begun. The longitudinal section (cut along an east-west line) faces the eastern wall. A part of Taylor's south Transfer Office can be seen on the west (left) and the outer wall to the east (right).

The section also shows three of the twenty three lanterns (see SM 1/2/13). The central lantern includes a row of short fluted pilasters (each capped by an indiscernible moulding) encircling the ring beam beneath the dome. The decorative mouldings differ slightly from those shown in SM volume 71/32: the swags over the three central arches are similar in both halls but the pattern of circles reducing in scale above the columns in this drawing differ from the rosette diaper pattern of SM volume 71/32.

Beneath the central lantern is an object of sepulchral appearance that may have been the original stove.

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Drawing

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