1825 Auction Mart, From Views of London. via Google Books.

            The View from the end of St. Bartholomew Lane  (at the union of Lothbury and Throgmorton Street),  to the entrance into the Royal Exchange at the opposite extremity,  has many attractions. Immediately on the left is the Auction  Mart, a building which possesses considerable architectural pretensions. It was erected in the year 1808-9, for the public sale of all sorts of Property, and has since had a literary Institution engrafted un the original Establishment.

            At some distance, on the same aide, is the principal Avenue, through Capel Court, to the Stock Exchange; and still further, the Church of St. Bartholomew, built in the year 1670. On the right, the eastern front of the Bank of England, which has been lately repaired and much improved, occupies the entire space to the corner of Threadneedle Street: the entrance to the Rotunda. where stockjobbers, &c. carry on their dealings in British Securities, being about the centre of the range, and nearly opposite the Stock Exchange. The View is terminated by a portion of the north elevation of the Royal Exchange, over which the new Tower and Cupola, surmounting the south front of the same Building, and finished in 1824, is conspicuous.

       What a scene of even species of Traffic—of the exchange of every denomination of Commodity, and every representative of Wealth—beneath a single glance of eye! Under certain effects and aspects the pictorial correspond in interest and grandeur with the other impressive features of this View.