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The Archive contains Soane’s business and personal papers. Appointments You can visit the Research Library and Archive by appointment, Wednesday to Friday, 10:00 to 13:00, 14:00 to 17:00. To make an appointment, please email library@soane.org.uk. We strongly encourage visitors to make appointments two weeks in advance, as space is very limited.
Soane was appointed architect to the Bank of England in 1788 and proceeded to make surveys of the Bank buildings. The roof of Sir Robert Taylor’s Bank Stock Office was discovered to be in a poor state of repair, its timbers rotting ‘owing to perforations in the lead covering which had admitted the wet, and decayed the bearings of the main girders’ (Bolton). Substantial rebuilding was ...
Imaginary view of the Rotunda and the Dividend Warrant Offices at the Bank of England in ruins. This watercolour shows the Rotunda at the Bank of England (designed by Soane and completed in 1798), drawn in the year of its completion 1798 but showing the structure as if it was a Roman ruin. The newly-built 4% Office is also visible on the right. The small figures of men with pickaxes working ...
Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane. Bank of England. London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)
Buildings in Progress: Soane's Views of Construction, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 1995 John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 ...
28 de mar. de 2010 · Two further architectural tributes to Soane remain inside the Bank of England Museum. The first room you step into is a painstaking reconstruction of Soane's Bank Stock Office of 1793. This ...
The Bank of England has been at its current home on Threadneedle Street in the City of London since 1734. Arguably, its most renowned building is that which was designed by architect Sir John Soane during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It remained operational until the 1920s when it was mainly demolished.
