Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1298777
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/01542/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Frederick Rushby. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1298777
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58808 72981
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/16/566 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.40 AND 42 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (South side) Nos.40 AND 42)
GV II
Bank. c1820. Widened c1925 by WH Watkins. Limestone ashlar, party walls stacks, roof not visible. Open plan banking hall, double-depth plan offices above. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. A near symmetrical front has the E windows added C20; ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches, with smaller end doorways set back, rusticated below a plat band, first-floor sill band, modillion cornice and balustrade with a central panel inscribed BANK. Doorways have C20 black granite moulded surrounds and raised cornices, blocked to the left, double doors to the right, with a narrow semicircular arch to the left-hand alley; impost blocks to windows with low cills and C20 glazing. Architraves above with first-floor console cornices, and horned 6/6-pane sashes; narrow left-hand windows. The right-hand section of the rear elevation is a mid C18 roughcast 2-window range with incised lintels to the lower floors which have 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set to the left on the ground floor. INTERIOR: banking hall with C20 half panelling, and plaster decoration with festoon and a round ceiling panel with modillion cornice, divided by square piers; right-hand entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch, to a rear stone cantilevered open-well stair, with wrought-iron balusters of intersecting curved bars, and a wreathed, cross-banded rail; panelled shutters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 251).
Listing NGR: ST5880872981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 251
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