Editing Bank of England (section)

====Expansion====
[[File:St Christopher le Stocks.gif|thumb|The Threadneedle Street front in 1773, after the addition of Taylor's east wing but before the demolition of St Christopher le Stocks (left)]]
In the second half of the 18th century the bank gradually acquired neighbouring plots of land to enable it to expand, and after 1765 new buildings began to be added by the bank's newly appointed architect Robert Taylor. North-west of the Pay Hall, overlooking St Christopher's churchyard to the south, Taylor built a suite of rooms for the Directors of the bank centred on a new (much larger) Court Room and Committee Room (When the bank was rebuilt in the 1920s-30s, these  rooms were removed from their original ground-floor location and reconstructed on the first floor; they continue to be used for meetings of the bank's Court of Directors and Monetary Policy Committee respectively.).<ref>{{cite web |title=Court Room |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bankofengland/6220545302 |website=Flickr |date=7 October 2011 |publisher=Bank of England |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Committee Room |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/bankofengland/6220027309 |website=Flickr |date=7 October 2011 |publisher=Bank of England |access-date=10 January 2024}}</ref> East of the Pay Hall, Taylor built a suite of halls and offices dedicated to the management of stocks and dividends, which more or less doubled the size of the bank's footprint (extending it as far as Bartholomew Lane).<ref name="Kynaston2017">{{cite book |last1=Kynaston |first1=David |title=Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |pages=60–62}}</ref> These rooms were centred on a large Rotunda, also known as the [[Stock exchange|Brokers' Exchange]], where dealing in Government Stock took place; around it were arranged four sizeable Transfer Offices, each corresponding with a different fund (as described in the 1820s: 'In each office under the several letters of the alphabet, are arranged the books on which the names of all persons having property in the funds are registered, as well as the particulars of their respective interests').<ref name="Allen1828">{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Thomas |title=The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Parts Adjacent (Volume 3) |date=1828 |publisher=Cowie & Strange |location=London |pages=221–245}}</ref> All these offices were top-lit, to avoid the need for windows in the external walls.

[[File:A view of the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London (NYPL Hades-280166-1253467).tiff|thumb|right|The bank in 1797: matching east and west wings by Sir Robert Taylor flank Sampson's centrepiece of 1733.]]
In 1782 the church of St Christopher le Stocks was demolished, allowing the bank to expand westwards along Threadneedle Street. The new west wing was completed to Taylor's design in 1786 (its frontage matching that of Taylor's earlier east wing): it housed the Reduced Annuities Office, the Cheque Office and the Dividend Warrant Office (among others). Immediately to the north lay the former churchyard of St Christopher le Stocks, which was preserved within the complex of buildings as a garden (known as the 'Garden Court'). North of Bullion Court, Taylor built a new four-storey Library, to house the bank's expanding collection of archives.