Taylor's Music Shop
TAYLOR'S MUSIC SHOP, 29, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116271
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Taylor's Music Shop
- Statutory Address:
- TAYLOR'S MUSIC SHOP, 29, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116271
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Taylor's Music Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAYLOR'S MUSIC SHOP, 29, BRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TAYLOR'S MUSIC SHOP, 29, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 01421 98574
Details
WALSALL MB BRIDGE STREET (north side) SP 0198 NW 13/18 No 29 (Taylor's Music Shop) GV II Music shop. 1893. Sculptor J Lea. White Hollington and red Penkridge sandstones. Three storeys with attic, three bays. Ground floor has mid- C20 shop front, below cornice, flanked by pilasters with granite shafts. The first floor also has pilasters between bays, of red sandstone carved with musical instruments. The capitals are carved with the heads of Handel, Bach, Mozart and Haydn. Between them each bay has a frieze carved with a biblical scene: at the left the fall of Jerico, in the centre David playing before Saul, at the right the Ark entering the Holy City. The pilasters of the first floor are carved with foliage and have Corinthian capitals. The entablature has a frieze carved with foliage and musical instruments. Above is an elaborate parapet with a central attic window projecting upwards within a round arch and under a cornice, with volutes to each side. At the outer corners of the parapet are statues of Euterpe, Goddess of Music, and of Melpomene, Goddess of Poetry.
Listing NGR: SP0142198574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219053
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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