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Title	Bank of England
View	Side view of a blind window on the south (front) elevation facing Threadneedle Street
Work Type	buildings commercial buildings financial institutions banks (buildings)
Style/Period	Nineteenth century
Creator Name	Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837
Creator Nationality	British
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors business, commerce and trade financial commerce
Subject.image	window: blind
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
State/Province	England
Architectural Material	stone
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	1788-1833 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/15/1997
Subject Information	[Only the ground exterior walls survive from Soan's design - the rest was destroyed in the 1920's and 30's when the Bank was enlarged.] In 1788 the Bank consisted of a Palladian core of the 1730s by George Sampson ( fl 1718-?1764), with extensive single-storey east and west wings of 1765-1770 by Taylor. Between 1792 and 1833 Soane rebuilt much of this earlier work as well as greatly expanding the Bank to the north-west. The first section of the rusticated, windowless screen wall with which Soane was eventually to surround the whole Bank was begun in 1795; it is all that survives of Soane's work at the Bank. To enliven this wall he articulated it with the rich Corinthian order of the so-called Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, which he had sketched while in Italy. His use of this order reached a climax in 1805 with the Tivoli Corner at the north-west angle of the Bank: a curved composition of considerable richness and complexity.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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