WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK

WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132711
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK
Statutory Address:: WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132711
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK
Statutory Address 1:: WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK, HIGH STREET

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WILLIAMS AND GLYNS BANK, HIGH STREET

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District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 42958 92830

Details

SK4292 ROTHERHAM HIGH STREET (south side) 9/47 Williams and Glyns Bank (formerly listed as No 1) 19.10.51 - II Bank. c1892 by E. I. Hubbard for the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company (press cutting). Ashlar sandstone, polished Aberdeen granite columns, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attics. Corner site with curved corner bay having 5 bays to right facing High Street and 6 bays to left facing Wellgate. High Street facade: plinth with bases for giant Corinthian columns between each bay. Doorway to bay 2 has ¼ colonnettes in the jambs; panel above with raised lettering 'OLD BANK / FOUNDED 1792'; segmental pediment with elements of Sheffield and Rotherham arms in tympanum. Bay 5 has doorway with architrave and plain panel beneath consoled pediment, lst-floor band beneath sash with bracketed, moulded sill and architrave. All other bays recessed and with ground-floor casements having bracketed sills, architraves and pediments; lst-floor band beneath windows as bay 5. Full entablature parapet with dies at bay intervals. Corner bay and bays to Wellgate recessed and in same style except left-hand bay which has pedimented doorway and paired lst-floor window. Left return of Wellgate front has earlier coursed-stone walling beneath white-glazed brickwork. Interior: good original ceiling to banking hall. Manager's office retains C18 bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel. An earlier doorway formerly existed on left return of Wellgate front. Rotherham Advertiser, Jan 9, 1892 (cutting in Rotherham Library)

Listing NGR: SK4295892830

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Legacy System number:: 335682
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Rotherham Advertiser' in 9 January, (1892)

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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.