Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942

Publication Data

• Title Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942
• Author Daniel M. Abramson
• Contributor Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location New Haven Conn.
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art".

Contents

Wilderness years in 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" : John Soane's early bank halls, 1788-99
The spectacle of finance : nationalism, urbanism, and bureaucracy, 1793-1808
Soane's finale and the Bank of England in his career, 1814-1833
Myth and modernity : Herbert Baker's Bank of England, 1921-1942
Architecture and history : learning from the Bank of England.

Topics

• Bank of England :: Buildings
• Bank of England :: History
• Bank buildings :: England :: London
• Architecture and society :: England :: History
• London (England) :: Buildings, structures, etc.
• London (England)

Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942 by Daniel M. Abramson. ISBN 9780300109245. Published by Yale University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.