British Linen Bank Building

  • Also Known As: Piazza Italiana Restaurant
  • Also Known As: South Sea Company Building Site
  • 1725-1900: South Sea House

  • Type: Building
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

British Linen Bank is a Grade II English Listed building finished with Portland stone in London, England, United Kingdom. The four storey classical style financial building retains the same massing, including the single storey lobby with a relief sculpture by John Bacon on the northeast end, as the South Sea Company building it replaced. The rusticated ground storey features Doric columns, a segmental pediment above the entrance and many fine mascaron faces. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1800/00/00 John Bacon the Younger Sculptor At sometime, the South Sea Company commissions John Bacon for a sculpture of two sailors. Apparently. Bacon will never be paid for the high-relief work of art.
1902/00/00 John Macvicar Anderson Architect Construction begins on a Neoclassical style London office for the British Linen Bank on Threadneedle Street on the site of South Sea House, headquarters of the South Sea Company.
1903/00/00 A single-storeyed lobby with an arched entrance links the British Linen Bank with No 15 Bishopsgate. Designed similar to the old South Sea Company entrance, the new gate includes John Bacon's high-relief sculpture of two sailors acquired by J M Anderson.
1903/00/00 British Linen Bank Office The British Linen Bank's new larger London office opens on Threadneedle Street. The bank's occupied offices on Lombard Street, for most of the C19.

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Particulars for British Linen Bank Building:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Historic Use Financial Institution
Architectural feature Mascaron
Architectural Style Neoclassical

Data
English Listed Building List Entry: 1358899



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