Further working drawings for the first phase of alterations, September/October 1826 (10)

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  - The Bank of England Branch Banks, 1826-1831 (353)
    - Manchester: Bank of England branch: survey plan of premises in Norfolk Street, survey plans and designs for alterations in two phases for premises at 35 King Street, 1826-1831 (123)

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SM (22) 56/2/8 (23) 56/2/6 (24) 56/2/10 (25) 56/2/20 (26) 56/2/12 (27) 56/2/16 (28) 56/2/17 (29) 56/2/18 (30) 56/2/11 (31) 56/2/32

Purpose

Further working drawings for the first phase of alterations, September/October 1826 (10)

Aspect

22 Plan, section and elevation of Old Front Door and fronticepiece [sic]
23 Part plan of the ground floor with one wall elevation
24 Plan of the banking hall with one wall elevation
25 Plan and section through small rooms at rear of banking hall
26 Plan of small rooms at rear of banking hall
27 Detail of a door frame
28 Detail of Stone Jamb and Architrave / full Size for front Doorway
29 Plan and elevation of new front entrance
30 Plan and elevations of counter
31 Unidentified part plan and elevation

Scale

(22, 29, 30) bar scales of ¾ inch to 1 foot (23) bar scale of ¼ inch to 1 foot (24) bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot (25) bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot (26) to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot (27, 28) full size (31) full size and to a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

22 as above, the whole of it his (sic) Stone except / Door & Sashes, labelled: Pavement, Landing of old Hall, Stone (twice), and dimensions given; (verso, pencil): Swansea
23 some dimensions given; (verso): various calculations and (pencil) dimensions given
24 labelled: A, (pencil) Iron Chest 3.2 / 2.7 / 2.9 high, and dimensions given
25 labelled: line of Ceiling, Floor level, (pencil) S^t Helens / in 5 courses, and dimensions given
26 (pencil) E A C E, and dimensions given
28 as above, This line to Range with the head of the window, and some dimensions given
29 Centre of Door to / be in the Centre of / old window, to range with the Head of the window, and dimensions given
30 labelled: Drawers under desks for / Manchester as this drawing, front (4 times), Drawer (12 times), flap (8 times), this middle partition to run / all through to end A / cases made seperate (sic) as / dotted lines / 1.3 clear, A (twice), front of Drawers (twice), middle partition, Inch ½ / wainscott partitions / stand flush with the / desks both sides / as AA, no Inch ¼ Inch ½ wainscott / Inch Deals edgd [sic] with wainscott / Drawer front 1¼ wainscott / Side Bottom and / Back ¾ Wainscott, Drawers at each end of the short desks / the same as B B, (Thomas Heath) M^r Smyth will have Drawers at each / End of Desk and each Side of Desk / only to keep back from the front of Desk / as for there (sic) feet to goe under to Stand / to Wright (sic), and dimensions given; (verso): M^r Geo Martyr / King Street / Greenwich / Kent, 8 o'clock / October 6 1826 / delivered / miner [sic] delay
31 labelled: 9'0¼", 3'0", 9'1¾", 3'0", (pencil) 2'9", 9'0¼", York Landing / 16-8 / 4-3½

Signed and dated

(30) (verso) as above, 'October 6 1826'

Medium and dimensions

(22) Pen, sepia, blue and caput washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (535 x 657) (23-25) pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil on verso of 23, pricked for transfer on wove paper (23) with three fold marks (530 x 650) (24, 25) with two fold marks (535 x 657, 330 x 560) (26) pen, raw umber and caput washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (230 x 580) (27) pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (570 x 695) (28) pen and pink wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper with three fold marks (575 x 680) (29) pen, blue, pink and raw umber washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with two fold marks (575 x 690) (30) pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper with four fold marks (345 x 560) (31) pen, grey, black and pink washes, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper with four fold marks (445 x 580)

Hand

(22-31) Thomas Heath, clerk of works (30) with inscriptions in another hand

Watermark

(22-24) 1823 (25-29, 31) T H & Co 1823

Notes

The reference to Swansea on the verso of drawing 22 is puzzling; there is certainly no link between this door, which is also shown on drawing 21 and the verso of drawing 23, and the Swansea branch bank (q.v.). Alterations to be made to the banking hall are shown on drawings 23 and 24 in pink wash, and include the addition of two small rooms to the rear of the hall (drawing 26). One of these was to be used as a book room (viz. drawing 39). Drawings 27 and 28 may be the full size drawings referred to on drawing 21. The new door is to be 8 feet

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