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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.
The Colonial Office in the Bank of England, unsigned watercolour by one of Sir John Soane's draftsmen, c. 1818; in Sir John Soane's Museum, London. (more) As a country house architect, Soane had modest success until he was appointed architect to the Bank of England in 1788.
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Grand Tour. Statue of Sir John Soane at the Bank of England, London. His travelling companion was Robert Furze Brettingham; [8] they travelled via Paris, where they visited Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, [9] and then went on to the Palace of Versailles on 29 March. They finally reached Rome on 2 May 1778. [10] .
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- 20 January 1837 (aged 83), 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England
- John Soan, 10 September 1753, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Sir John’s Soane’s contributions to the Bank of England were destroyed in the 1920s to make way for renovations, in what is considered by some architectural historians to be one of modern architectural history’s greatest losses. Today, the memory of Soane’s Bank of England is revered by architects worldwide for its spectacular use of ...
Curatorial note. John Soane exhibited this watercolour by Gandy at the Royal Academy (no.1052) in 1830 to illustrate the results of his nearly forty-five years of labour on the Bank of England using the straightforward title 'A bird's eye view of the Bank of England'.
The Bank of England Branch Banks Sir John Soane served as architect and surveyor to the Bank of England for 45 years from 1788, during which time he completed 'the most important commission of his life' (Colvin, op. cit., p. 962), the rebuilding of the Bank of England.
Contents of Bank of England. Bank of England, City of London for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, 1788-1834 (1352) London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100) London: New Bank Buildings, Princes Street, City of London, 1807 ...