Trustee Savings Bank
TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, 14 AND 15, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207256
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, 14 AND 15, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207256
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, 14 AND 15, CHURCH 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:
- TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, 14 AND 15, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54153 29386
Details
PRESTON
SD5429SW CHURCH STREET 941-1/12/71 (North side) 27/09/79 Nos.14 AND 15 Trustee Savings Bank
GV II
Bank. Dated 1905 on plinth; for Preston Savings Bank. Sandstone ashlar on plinth of polished pink granite (roof concealed but probably slate). Long rectangular block with front range parallel to street. Baroque style. Two storeys and 1:4:1 bays, symmetrical; ground floor treated as rustic and 1st floor as piano nobile, with moulded plinth, modillioned cornice and balustraded parapet. The 4-bay centre has channelled rusticated piers and large cross-windows at ground floor, blocked pairs of Ionic columns at 1st floor and large round-headed 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, fanlights with radiating glazing bars, keyed architraves, and small balustraded segmental balconies. The central pier of the ground floor has marks of former attached lettering "PRESTON SAVINGS BANK", and a foundation stone in the plinth with inscription recording that it was laid by W.P.Park, Chairman of the Trustees, in October 1905. The end bays break forwards slightly and have channelled rustication to both floors; each has a round-headed doorway at ground floor with rusticated voussoirs and carved keystone, and a doorcase composed of granite blocked Tuscan columns with sandstone entablature and open-segmental pediment, decorated wrought-iron gates and fanlights (the latter mostly concealed by modern signs), at 1st floor a 12-pane sashed window with triple-keystone, pedimented architrave and small balustraded balcony, and at parapet level a segmental pediment containing a cartouche with swags. INTERIOR: banking hall has richly decorated coffered ceiling with egg-and-dart frieze, folated modillions, massive beams on foliated consoles, and geometrical-patterned moulded plaster decoration in the panels.
Listing NGR: SD5413229404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391949
- 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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