[7] Record drawing of the existing Threadneedle Street front, 1816

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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)
    - 1814-1816 Rebuilding of existing offices and proposals for rebuilding street fronts (118)
      - Façades proposals, 1814-1816 (14)

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SM 11/7/4

Purpose

[7] Record drawing of the existing Threadneedle Street front, 1816

Aspect

Elevation

Scale

to a scale

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent (sheet trimmed, probably 1809)

Notes

The entrance building was built by George Sampson in 1732 as the front of the original Bank. Its design was probably derived from Inigo Jones's river front to Somerset House, for which Sampson was the Clerk of Works from 1718 (Colvin). Robert Taylor added two large single-storey extensions to the east and west, cladding the single-storey wings in a delicate colonnade.

Literature

H. Colvin, Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, 4th ed., 2008

Level

Drawing

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