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Reference number

SM 9/4/44

Purpose

[3] Presentation drawing of the existing offices and the proposed alterations, March 1807

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

bar scale

Inscribed

The Bank of England, Design for the proposed alterations in the Committee Rooms, / Waiting Rooms &c and plan labelled: Court (four times), Governors Room, Committee Room (three times), Committee of Treasury, Discount Office, Coffee Room, Passage (four times), Lobby (twice), Waiting Room (three times), Court Room, Garden Court, Committee Room, Strong Room, Secretary to Committee / of Treasury, Deputy Governors Room, Passage, Water / Closet (twice)

Signed and dated

  • March 1807

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

J Whatman 1801

Notes

This drawing and SM 9/4/45 were submitted to the Building Committee on 26 March 1807. SM 9/4/45 shows the existing offices, with the former Princes Street screen wall partly intact. In this drawing, the wall has been removed and three Committee Rooms are placed at the south side of the Waiting Room Court. A long corridor with three lobbies runs from east to west, with the Governor and Deputy Governor's Rooms overlooking the long courtyard on the west side.

See SM 9/2/7 for a similar design within the Bank's general plan.

Level

Drawing

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