National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382952
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382952
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HIGH 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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 7, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54974 45737
Details
WELLS
ST5445 HIGH STREET
662-1/7/83 (South side)
13/09/72 No.7
National Westminster Bank
GV II
Bank. 1856, designed by CE Giles of Taunton. Doulting stone
ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof, ashlar chimney stacks with
moulded caps. Venetian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, irregular fenestration. Plinth, moulded
sill strings, dentilled cornice, ground floor has on left a
pointed- arched doorway with label having carved end bosses,
quatrefoil fanlight over segmental-arch doorway, heavy doors
with 10 panels each; to right two 4-light windows set under
stilted segmental arches with stiff-leaf capital columns to
jambs, subdivided toplights over transoms.
First floor has 3 pairs ogee-arched windows, not regularly
spaced, having Purbeck stone columns as dividing mullions,
also with stiff-leaf capitals, the double-arched labels have
carved leaf ball stops. Above, three to each window, are
circular recessed panels with a variety of quatrefoil
decorations, the second floor has 4 pairs segmental-arched
windows without labels, having a plain Purbeck shaft dividing
each pair.
INTERIOR: not seen; remodelled to ground floor.
Building constructed originally for Stuckey's, the Lamport
bank, on the site of the George Inn (anciently the Crystesham
Inn, first mentioned in 1388). A bold design of its type,
exhibiting the Ruskinian influences of the 1850s.
(Holmes T Scott: Wells and Glastonbury: London: 1908-).
Listing NGR: ST5497645721
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scott Holmes, T, Wells and Glastonbury, (1908)
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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