Editing Bank of England (section)

====John Soane's rebuilding====

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| long_title            = An Act to enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to purchase certain Houses and Ground contiguous to the Bank of England.
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| citation              = [[33 Geo. 3]]. c. 15
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[[File:Bank of England - Soane's dividend office edited.jpg|thumb|right|The Dividend Office as rebuilt by John Soane]]
Sir Robert Taylor died in 1788 and in his place the bank appointed [[John Soane]] as Architect and Surveyor (he would remain in post until 1827). Under his direction, the bank was further expanded and partially rebuilt, bit by bit but to a cohesive plan. A survey of the buildings, undertaken at the start of his tenure, identified some problems, which were promptly remedied by Soane: for example in 1795 he rebuilt the Rotunda and two of the adjacent Transfer Offices (the Bank Stock Office and the Four Per Cent Office), replacing Taylor's timber roofs, which were leaking, with more durable stonework.<ref name="Francis1848" /> At the same time Soane was tasked with purchasing properties to the north-east, with compulsory purchase powers granted by the '''{{visible anchor|Bank of England Site Act 1793}}''' ([[33 Geo. 3]]. c. 15), so as to enable the bank to expand in that direction as far as Lothbury. Between 1794 and 1800 he designed a cohesive set of buildings within the new irregularly-shaped site: he reconfigured Bullion Court and provided a new entrance route for vehicles from the north, which was named Lothbury Court;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Brian |title=Sir John Soane & The Bank of England |website=Heritage Group |publisher=Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers |url=http://www.hevac-heritage.org/built_environment/biographies/surnames_S-W/soane/S1-SOANE.pdf |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref> to the west of this he built a new Chief Cashier's office, and rooms for the Secretary and Chief Accountant; to the east he constructed a new Library block and added a fifth Transfer Office (the [[Consols]] Transfer Office) to the north of the other four.<ref name="ProjectSoane">{{cite web |title=The Bank of England |url=https://projectsoane.wordpress.com/home/all-about-the-bank/the-bank-of-england/ |website=Project Soane |date=14 July 2017 |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref>