Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 30, ST WERBURGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376394
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 30, ST WERBURGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376394
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 30, ST WERBURGH 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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 30, ST WERBURGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40533 66462
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET 595-1/4/358 (North side) 10/01/72 No.30 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET (East side) Barclays Bank)
GV II
Bank, formerly with Magistrates Court No.3, Northgate Street (qv) and library of Cathedral (qv), part of the King's School. c1875. By Sir A Blomfield. Red sandstone; brown tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. Half-glazed oak replaced double doors in moulded arched opening with carved spandrels under hoodmould in a projecting porch diminishing at second storey floor level to a 2 storey canted bay window. The first storey has a 1-light transomed window west of porch and a tripartite mullioned and transomed window of 1;4;1 lights with cusped ogee heads surmounted by paired glazed quatrefoil; stringcourse at second storey floor; bay window above porch has 1;3;1 lights with cusped ogee heads and paired glazed quatrefoils; a cross-window east has cusped arched heads. Stringcourse beneath crenellated parapet interrupted by attic bay window of 1;3;1 mullioned lights with ogee cusped heads. A gabled roof-dormer of timber, east, has cusped head and arched, moulded bargeboards. Red terracotta ridge. The rear has stepped buttresses and mullioned and transomed windows with arched heads, floor and sill-strings, a gabled traceried attic window, 2 gabled timber roof dormers of 2 lights with cusped arches, close-studded apices and arched bargeboards; a timber-framed higher blank dormer; a shaped stone chimney. INTERIOR has most features covered.
Listing NGR: SJ4054266458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470389
- 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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