Site plan, Temple Street

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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
  - The Bank of England Branch Banks, 1826-1831 (353)
    - Swansea, Glamorganshire: Bank of England branch, Burrows Lodge and the Old Bank, Temple Street: survey plans, elevations with proposed alterations, and related documents 1826-1832 (20)

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Reference number

SM (14) 56/5/9

Purpose

Site plan, Temple Street

Aspect

14 Plan of the Swansea Branch Bank / Copied from Deed rec^d from Mess^rs Freshfield / 5 May 1832 & ret[urne]^d the same day / to the Clerk who brought it (M^r Devonshire)

Scale

to a scale of 1/17 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Corporation of Swansea, To M^r Daniel Thomas, M^r John Edmonds - North, One Hundred and Sixteen Feet three Inches, Forty two Feet six Inches, Calvert R^d Jones Esq, Castle Baily Street East, At A in the one pair of stairs of the / House is a Window which is not to / be stoned, One hundred and fifty Feet seven Inches / includes the Wall at West End, Place Street - South,Sixty four feet three Inches, Corporation of Swansea, Goat Street - West, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

dated as being received on 5 May 1832

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on tracing paper (294 x 448)

Hand

Soane office (copy)

Notes

The title, which appears in a different hand to the labelling, resembles the hand of George Bailey, and was added later. The site plan shows the building to have been located on the corner of Place Street (referred to in all other plans and writings as Temple Street) and Castle Baily Street.
Messrs Freshfield were the Bank of England's solicitors.
The drawing must have been made outside of the Soane office, as drawings done on tracing paper have not yet been found within the Soane collection with the exception of some drawings in volume 42 (q.v.).

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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