Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298777
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, CORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298777
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, 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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 40 AND 42, 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 58808 72981
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/16/566 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.40 AND 42 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (South side) Nos.40 AND 42)
GV II
Bank. c1820. Widened c1925 by WH Watkins. Limestone ashlar, party walls stacks, roof not visible. Open plan banking hall, double-depth plan offices above. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. A near symmetrical front has the E windows added C20; ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches, with smaller end doorways set back, rusticated below a plat band, first-floor sill band, modillion cornice and balustrade with a central panel inscribed BANK. Doorways have C20 black granite moulded surrounds and raised cornices, blocked to the left, double doors to the right, with a narrow semicircular arch to the left-hand alley; impost blocks to windows with low cills and C20 glazing. Architraves above with first-floor console cornices, and horned 6/6-pane sashes; narrow left-hand windows. The right-hand section of the rear elevation is a mid C18 roughcast 2-window range with incised lintels to the lower floors which have 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set to the left on the ground floor. INTERIOR: banking hall with C20 half panelling, and plaster decoration with festoon and a round ceiling panel with modillion cornice, divided by square piers; right-hand entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch, to a rear stone cantilevered open-well stair, with wrought-iron balusters of intersecting curved bars, and a wreathed, cross-banded rail; panelled shutters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 251).
Listing NGR: ST5880872981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History (1979), 251
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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