Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 12 AND 13, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298544
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 12 AND 13, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298544
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 12 AND 13, CHAPEL 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:
- MIDLAND BANK, 12 AND 13, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20102 54841
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054NW CHAPEL STREET 604-1/10/35 (North West side) 09/02/72 Nos.12 AND 13 Midland Bank
GV II
Bank. 1883. By Harris, Martin and Harris of Birmingham; for the Birmingham Banking Co. Brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings; tile roof with enriched cresting and truncated brick stacks. Gothic style. 3 storeys; 2-window range with canted angle to right and 2-storey, 3-window, range to left. Shallow offset buttresses and top Lombard frieze. Ground floor has paired pointed-arched windows, the sills lowered in the 1980s; spandrels with foliage, and relief terracotta scenes above taken from Shakespeare's plays; 1st floor has windows of 3 cusped pointed lights with colonnettes and ashlar heads with roundels; 2 small triangular dormers. Narrow section to right has flanking buttresses and relief panel. Range to left has pointed entrance with hood and fanlight to half-glazed door; ground floor has pointed windows similarly treated to others, but with frieze of diapering and sunflowers to spandrels; 1st floor has 2 pointed windows with enriched ashlar tympana and enriched gable; window to right has terracotta flat arch and cornice. Corner has pointed entrance with polished granite shafts and rich capitals to columns; cusped tympanum with mosaic of Shakespeare, foliate spandrels and relief panel above; paired doors. 1st floor has 2 pointed windows with shafts and enriched ashlar tympana and spandrels; top frieze and cornice, and pyramidal roof with triangular dormer and finial. Right return to Ely Street is similar; 2-storey, single-bay, range with 2-storey with attic, 4-window, range and gabled 2-storey end block. INTERIOR has pointed recesses with rich capitals to pilasters and coffered ceiling. A good example of High Victorian Gothic rare in Stratford. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 418; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 23).
Listing NGR: SP2010254841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 23
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 418
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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