Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 12, PICCADILLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246668
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 12, PICCADILLY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246668
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 12, PICCADILLY
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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 12, PICCADILLY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84576 98148
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE PICCADILLY 698-1/29/281 (South West side) 20/06/88 No.12 Barclays Bank
GV II
Bank. Dated 1911 on frieze; by Thomas Worthington and Son, for Union Bank of Manchester. Portland stone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Classical style. Four storeys and attic, 4 bays to Piccadilly and 8-bay return to Chatham Street; with channelled rustication to ground floor, rusticated quoins to all angles of the upper floors (carried across the corner as narrow channelling), 3rd-floor sill-band, frieze with carried-round inscription "UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND LD / MDCCCCXI / ESTABLISHED ANNO DOMINI MDCCCXXXVI", prominent modillioned cornice, and small pedimented attic dormers. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway to the corner, a round-headed doorway at the left end, and windows with cavetto surrounds and keystones (those to the front and 1st 2 bays of the side scrolled); 1st and 2nd floors have 12-pane sashed windows with moulded architraves, those at 1st floor with pediments, and balustraded balconies to the front and 1st 2 side bays, and that in the corner set in a round-headed arch, with cornice instead of pediment, and carved tympanum; 3rd floor has windows with plain surrounds, and roundels between them. Eighth bay of return side differs: 3 storeys and attic, round-headed window at ground floor and tripartite windows above. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8457698148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455652
- 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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