[6] Design for the Discount Office with, at each end, three clerestory windows and an aisle screened by piers supporting a segmental arch and faced with pilasters, 15 November 1805

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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)
      - Discount Office and Long Passage, 1805-1806 (31)

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Reference number

SM volume 75/74

Purpose

[6] Design for the Discount Office with, at each end, three clerestory windows and an aisle screened by piers supporting a segmental arch and faced with pilasters, 15 November 1805

Aspect

Interior perspective looking east

Inscribed

A view of the intended Discount Office, The Bank

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields Nov / 15 1805

Hand

Soane office

Notes

As in SM volume 75/72, this drawing and SM volume 75/73 show a one-and-a-half height rectangular room with an aisle to the east and a recess to the west. A semicircular-headed window on the north wall faces a small courtyard built at the same time as the new office. The ceiling ornament and the pilasters in the drawings divide the central space into three parts. The alcove on the east side is partitioned off, presumably as a public area (see SM volume 75/7).

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