NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064599
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064599
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, PRINCE'S STREET EC2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City and County of the City of London (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32671 81138

Details

PRINCE'S STREET EC2 1. 5002 (West Side) No 1 (National Westminster Bank) TQ 3281 SE 10/N/36

II GV

2. 1929 by Sir Edwin Cooper. Classical, stone, 5 storeys and 2 attics, the upper one recessed. High channelled base with Doric frieze and cornice; large round-headed vermiculated openings with big scrolled keystones, rectangular niches with statues. Mezzanine above cornice. 5 storey channelled antae over, recessed 5-bay centres between with giant detached Corinthian columns, bracketed cornice over. Plain attic storey with simple parapet. High recessed upper attic with band of swag decoration and simple coping. Corner of Prince's Street and Mansion House Street, statuary group of 5 figures. Corner of St Mildred's Court, City Corporation plaque, "Mrs Elizabeth Fry 1780-1845 Prison Reformer lived here 1800-1809".

Listing NGR: TQ3266981136

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 199695
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.