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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.
Our most famous architect of all, John Soane, created the large island-like site we have today. The work took place from 1788 and finished in 1833 – a whole 45 years later! Unfortunately, very little of Soane's original work survives today because it was only one storey high.
Between 1925 and 1939, Bank of England architect Sir Herbert Baker demolished what had become known as 'the old Bank' or 'Soane's Bank'. The old Bank, designed by architect Sir John Soane, was regarded as one of London's architectural gems.
John Soane (1753–1837) was appointed as the Bank of England’s architect in 1788. Soane rebuilt much of the Threadneedle Street building. This is a painting of the building at that time from the direction of Mansion House.
The architecture of the Bank. This gallery is a reconstruction of the Stock Office designed by Sir John Soane, Bank architect from 1788 to 1833. During the 1920s Soane’s Bank was almost completely demolished. The only part that remains today is the curtain wall around the outside of the Bank.
Listen to a short talk about Sir John Soane's work for the Bank of England. And, follow a trail that traces the architectural history of the Bank from its first premises on Cheapside to Sir Herbert Baker's Bank of England building on Threadneedle Street.
This week the Bank marks the 250th anniversary of the birth, in 1753, of its renowned architect Sir John Soane with the opening of a special commemorative exhibition in the Bank's Museum.
Undertaken in stages, the building at Threadneedle Street was demolished and rebuilt over a period of nearly two decades, with the outer façade being the only part of the building to remain from Sir John Soane’s renowned design.
Three mosaics have been found on the site – decorative floors that once adorned impressive Roman villas built on the bank of the now-lost River Walbrook. The first mosaic was discovered in the 1820s, when Sir John Soane was completing the north-west expansion of the Bank.
His appointment to the Bank of England came in 1788; Soane resigned from the position in 1833 due to failing eyesight. He spent his last years writing a 'Description' of the House in Lincoln's Inn Fields which had been his home in 1812 and which he left to the Nation as a museum.