Building the Bank of England. Money, Architecture, Society, 1694-1942
Details:
- Author(s) Abramson, Daniel M
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2005
- Pages 282pp; illus
- Publisher Yale University Press
- Place Published New Haven CT
Topics:
- Name Buildings: commercial & transport
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
See the writer's doctoral thesis, 'Money's Architecture. The building of the Bank of England, 1731-1833', Fine Arts Dept, Harvard University, 1993. Deals with the architectural history of the Bank from its origins to 20th century, the symbolic significance of the buildings, etc. Has chapters: 'Wilderness years in the Grocers' Hall, 1694-1734'; 'Corporate virtue - George Sampson's Bank of England, 1731-34'; 'Making the market - Robert Taylor's Bank of England, 1764-88'; ''Shadows upon the stone' - Sir John Soane's early banking halls, 1788-99'; 'The spectacle of finance - nationalism, urbanism and bureaucracy, 1793-1808'; 'Soane's finale and the Bank of England in his career, 1814-33'; 'Myth and modernity - Herbert Baker's Bank of England, 1921-42'; 'Architecture and history - learning from the Bank of England'