Buildings by Sir John Soane in or Near London

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Sir John Soane's Museum
13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7405 2107 Open Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm. Late evening opening (6 - 9 pm) on the first Tuesday of each month

The Bank of England
Bank of England Museum, Bartholemew Lane, London, EC2R 8AH. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7601 5545. Soane's Bank of England was demolished in the 1920s; only the perimeter walls were preserved. Soane's Bank Stock Office has been reconstructed as a handsome full-scale replica to house the Museum telling the Bank's story.

Pitzhanger Manor
Mattock Lane, Ealing, London, W5 5EQ. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8567 1227. Click here for web site

Dulwich Picture Gallery
College Road, London, SE21 7AD. For details please telephone +44 (0) 20 8693 5254 or click here

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4SR. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7881 5203. Of Soane's additions to Wren's Hospital, the Secretary's Office, now a Museum, can be visited on Monday to Saturday from 10 am - 12 pm and 2 - 4 pm and on Sunday from 2 - 4 pm; the Garden Shelter in Ranelagh Gardens is accessible at the same hours and the stables are visible from Royal Hospital Road.

Churches
Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone (1825), opposite Great Portland Street Tube Station, is now a bookshop accessible during shop opening hours. St Peter's Church, Liverpool Grove, Walworth (1822) and St John's Church, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green (1826) are accessible during hours of service.

Churchyard Monuments
The Soane family tomb (1816) is in St Pancras Gardens, Pancras Road, a public park behind St Pancras Station. It recently undergone a complete restoration together with the re-landscaping of the Gardens. The monument to Elizabeth Johnstone (1784) is in the churchyard of St Mary Abbot's Kensington, and the monument to the painter Philippe de Loutherbourg (1812) is in St Nicholas's Church, Chiswick.

Buildings Surviving in London by Soane's contemporaries
George Dance the Younger, Soane's first teacher designed the Church of All Hallows on London Wall (1765) and the facade of the Guildhall (1788). His second master Henry Holland designed and built Hans Town, including Sloane Street, Cadogan Place and Hans Place (from 1777) and converted York House on Piccadilly into the Albany apartments (from 1802) designing the row of houses behind and the facade to Vigo Street. He also designed Brooks's Club, St James's (1776-78).

Soane's great rival, John Nash, transformed London by conceiving, designing and developing Regent's Street and Regent's Park from 1813-32. This project concluded with Carlton House Terrace, where the Duke of York's Monument was erected to the designs of Benjamin Dean Wyatt (1834) and the creation of Trafalgar Square, encompassing the National Gallery by William Wilkins (1834-38) and the Nelson Monument by William Railton (1840-43). Regent Street has been largely rebuilt but surviving landmarks designed by Nash himself include All Souls, Langham Place, and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

Nash built Buckingham Palace from 1825-30; its original entrance was through Marble Arch, since relocated to its current site. The triumphal arch on Constitution Hill and the Ionic Screen to Hyde Park are by his young protégé, Decimus Burton. Also on this site Benjamin Dean Wyatt designed Apsley House (1822); Robert Smirke's St George's Hotel (1828) is now the Lanesborough Hotel. Smirke designed the British Museum (1823-46) and the Royal Opera House (1808) but the latter has since been rebuilt. Covent Garden Market is by Charles Fowler (1828-30).

Country Houses Built, Altered or Extended by Soane
Aynhoe Park, Aynhoe, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3BQ. Telephone: 01869 810636. Open Wednesdays and Thursdays in May - September from 2 - 5 pm.

Chillington Hall, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, WV8 1RE. Telephone: 01902 850236. Open Thursdays in June - September from 2.30 - 5.30 pm.

Tyringham Hall, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, MK16 9EX. Exterior of gateway and bridge only.

Wimpole Hall, Arrington, Royston, Cambridgeshire, SG8 0BW. Telephone: 01223 207257. Open from 1-5 every day except Monday and Friday from mid-March - end of October.