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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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Reference number

SM (55) 56/1/51

Purpose

Design for alterations

Aspect

55 Front elevation

Scale

bar scale of 3/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

(pencil) Draw[in]g to a / large scale

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, sepia and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (551 x 705)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Notes

Drawing 55 shows a three storey with basement house with five bays, the centre bay projecting and with a broken-pedimented tripartite window on the ground floor. The curving steps to the entrance at the right hand side of the bank were not built, and a new entrance was constructed to a different design instead (see drawings 90 and 96).

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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