7 and 9, Gracechurch Street
7 AND 9, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON, EC3V 0DR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262387
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 7 and 9, Gracechurch Street
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 9, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON, EC3V 0DR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262387
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 7 and 9, Gracechurch Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 9, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON, EC3V 0DR
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:
- 7 AND 9, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON, EC3V 0DR
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 32988 81052
Details
TQ 3281 SE & TQ 3381 SW
10/403 & 11/403
GRACECHURCH STREET
Nos 7 and 9
(Formerly listed as No 7-9 (consec) (BARCLAYS BANK))
II
Former bank and office bock. 1919-13 by W. Campbell-Jones for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; built by Trollope & and Colls. Steel frame construction faced with Portland stone, chanelled and rusticated on alternate bands at ground floor level.
Awkward rhomboid site cleverly made to appear rectangular. four storeys, attic and basement. Seven bays. Symmetrical facade in French Baroque/Beaux Arts banner. Tall ground floor with central round-arched entrance flanked by architraved square-headed windows and then round-arches to each end bay (that to left being the entrance to Bell Yard); all with exaggerated keystones having huge foliar enriched consoles; central consoles with cartouche. Plain band at first floor level from which ionic pilasters with swags, paired at penultimate bays, rise through three floors to support the entablature having sections of architrave only over the pilasters and projecting bracketed cornice. Attic set back with huge consoles on line of each pilaster separating the bays. Fine metal framed Crittall windows having complex margin glazing to ground floor and upper floors with thin transoms and mullions and patterned small panes. Second floor has enriched spandrel panels with cartouches (originally bearing in Chinese characters the names of the five principal Chinese towns) enclosed within square heads, flanked by floral drops. Third floor spandrel panels of bay leaf bands. Metal basement grilles and wreathed grilles to entrance arches by The Bromsgrove Guild.
Interior features of interest include sumptuous banking hall filling the entire ground floor with marble, tile and mosaic work by Art Pavements & Decorations Ltd; walls lined with American cipollino, dado of green Swedish marble with buff marble rail. Structural stanchions appear as doric columns encased in blue Ardennes marble supporting a good, richly decorated low relief plasterwork panelled ceiling with shallow domes having patterned glazing and providing top lighting. At the far end of the hall is a screen of marble ionic columns at ground floor level supporting a white pentelic marble open work balustrade bearing in the centre a good sculptured group of three Chinese boys.
Main rooms retain polished hardwood doors and panelling of Australian silkwood and Italian walnut; one room believed to retain an Adam fireplace. Original banking hall floor of mosaic, believed to exist beneath false floor. Some late C20 partitioning and a mezzanine floor inserted. Although built to reflect the importance of the bank, it was also intended that the corporation would occupy only the lower storeys and let the offices above to recoup costs. It was required to be built as speedily as possible taking just over one year.
Listing NGR: TQ3298281050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435120
- 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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