Site plan of proposed branch bank, Bridge 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)
    - Bristol: Bank of England branch: survey drawings, designs for alterations and related documents for eight premises including the selected one in Bridge Street, 1826-1827 (32)

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Reference number

SM (22) 56/8/1

Purpose

Site plan of proposed branch bank, Bridge Street

Aspect

22 Rough site plan of proposed bank, main streets and surrounding buildings

Inscribed

Corn Street, Exchange, Market &^c, Church, Quay &^c, Bridge, Wine Street, Maryport Street, Houses, Bridge Street, Houses, Gate, Avenue, Dolphin Street, Iron Gate, Proposed Bank, Peter Street, S^t Peters / Church, Entrance to S^t Peters Hospital, S^t Peters Hospital, The River Avon, A / 7, (red pen, encircled) N^o 7

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, blue and pink washes on laid secretary paper (204 x 320)

Hand

badly-nested tags: br

Watermark

Britannia with lance, shield and olive branch within crowned oval

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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