[3] Preliminary design for widening Lothbury and the entrance of Coleman Street, by Samuel Acton

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  - 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)
      - Improvements to streets, 1825-1829 (18)

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SM 9/1/11

Purpose

[3] Preliminary design for widening Lothbury and the entrance of Coleman Street, by Samuel Acton

Aspect

(upper case) Sketch / for improving the West end of / Lothbury / and the Entrance of / Coleman Street

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, (as / proposed in / 1825), Cateaton Street, The Old Jewry, Coleman Street, Lothbury, Princes Street, proposed line, present line, present line, propsoed line

Hand

Samuel Acton office

Watermark

W Spear 1815

Notes

This is a preliminary design for expanding the west end of Lothbury to a width of 37 feet and curving the corner of Lothbury and Coleman Streets.

Samuel Acton (c.1773-1837) was the Surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London. He became a student at the Royal Academy in 1790 and won the Silver Medal in 1794. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1791 to 1802. In 1822 he was the President of the Surveyor's Club (Colvin). The drawing dates from 1825 but the correspondence is dated April 1829, when the Bank was asked to review Acton's designs for widening and improving the west end of Lothbury. Acton met with the Directors to present the plans, as written on the attached letter 1a, and he and a Mr Carter visited Soane to discuss the plans, as documented in 1b-d.

Literature

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

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