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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
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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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