The Corn Exchange and Former Savings Bank
THE CORN EXCHANGE AND FORMER SAVINGS BANK, GLOUCESTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368496
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Corn Exchange and Former Savings Bank
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORN EXCHANGE AND FORMER SAVINGS BANK, GLOUCESTER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368496
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Corn Exchange and Former Savings Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CORN EXCHANGE AND FORMER SAVINGS BANK, GLOUCESTER 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:
- THE CORN EXCHANGE AND FORMER SAVINGS BANK, GLOUCESTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Faringdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 28796 95549
Details
GREAT FARINGDON GLOUCESTER STREET SU 2895 (south side)
3/37 The Corn Exchange and former Savings Bank -
GV II
1863 former Corn Exchange and Savings Bank. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Large one-storey hall with 2-storey front range to Cornmarket all under same roof, plain tiled and hipped to front. Gothic style. Asymmetrical front range, 2 windows to Cornmarket with heavily moulded doorway to left, Gothic arched with quatrefoil opening in tympanum and inscribed scroll over. Statue each side on buttress with small carved canopy over. 3-sided canted oriel over with 1863 date on moulded base. Cusped trefoil window heads with quatrefoil top-lights. Crow stepped small gable over with Gothic attic window under hood-mould. Copper weathervane. The right side, the adjacent canted corner bay and 1st bay of Gloucester Street elevation all similar with 2-light windows each floor, ground floor under segmental arch with carved boss over central mullion and shouldered window heads, 1st floor with carved capital to central shaft, cusped heads and quatrefoil over. Main Hall: 5 windows with buttresses between. Long triple windows with dividing shafts and carved capitals, shouldered heads and carved bosses over shafts. Large plate traceried west window. Attached to west, former Savings Bank, lower one-storey range divided from hall by doorway with shouldered head, hood mould and carved scroll: 'Faringdon Savings Bank 1863'. Crenellated wall over the monogrammed plaque 'FTSB 1818'. Savings Bank with stone tiled roof, 2 large 3-sided bays with mullion and transom windows and crenellated parapets with quatrefoil panels and blank shields.
Listing NGR: SU2879695549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249383
- 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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