31 AND 33, CORN STREET
31 AND 33, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298783
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 33, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31 AND 33, CORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298783
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 31 AND 33, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31 AND 33, CORN 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:
- 31 AND 33, 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 58737 72986
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/16/559 (North West side) 01/11/66 Nos.31 AND 33 (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (North side) Nos.31 AND 33 National Provincial Bank)
GV II
Bank, now cafe and offices. 1930. By FCR Palmer, interior 1864, by WB Gingell. Portland ashlar and red brick with Portland dressings, roof not visible. Central banking hall with antechamber and rear offices. Neo-Palladian style. 3 storey; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has pedimented 3-window section set forward with rusticated ashlar ground floor to a full-width band, tetrastyle attached Corinthian columns above to an entablature and modillion pediment, containing a large cartouche and festoon, and City arms; brick parapet. Semicircular-arched ground-floor openings with banded reveals, central doorway with well-carved key, 6-panel double doors and fanlight; small flat-headed right-hand doorway and left-hand window set in rusticated surrounds, brick above the lintel. The windows to the upper floors between the columns have architraves, with console cornices and a central segmental pediment to 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor, and ears to each corner to 3/6-pane second-floor sashes. Thin outer windows have 6/6-pane first-floor and 2/4-pane second-floor sashes. INTERIOR: marble floor to the entrance lobby, with paired Ionic pilasters with festooned capitals to semicircular arches; over the doorway is a panel with festoon, branches and a clock. Left-hand hall in 2 sections with pilasters and pilastered piers to moulded beams. The large central banking hall has paired pilasters dividing it into 3 by 2 bays, to a frieze and dentil cornice; the S end has semicircular-arched doorways flanking a flat arch, and the N end a central semicircular arch. Heavily decorated roof has paired, gilded beams to a coved ceiling, panelled spandrels, and corners with rocaille and pairs of putti holding the Queen's head; over the S bay a similar pair hold the City arms. Central glazed dome and 4 lunettes. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 352, 417).
Listing NGR: ST5873772986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379365
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 352
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 417
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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