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1788-1833 Sir John Soane

Sir John Soane was one of England's greatest architects. His appointment in October 1788 as 'Architect and Surveyor' to the Bank was the most important of his distinguished career. The Bank was his main pre-occupation for the ensuing 45 years until his retirement in 1833 when he described it as '...a situation which has long been the pride and boast of my life'. He extended the Bank's site and eventually enclosed it in 1828 with a windowless wall.'

The structure of 'Soane's Bank of England' remained more or less untouched until it was demolished and a new building erected by the architect Herbert Baker between the two World Wars.