Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/4/166 (North side)
10/01/72 Nos.47-57 (odd) Street (Midland
Bank)
(Formerly Listed as:
EASTGATE STREET
Nos.47-57 (Odd)
Midland Bank)

GV II

Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank, now Midland
Bank. 1883-4. By Douglas and Fordham. Enlarged 1908. Red
sandstone and stone-dressed brick with Westmorland green slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 high storeys, in schloss style. The vertically
expressed entrance bay has a wing of 2 windows, west, and a
3-window wing with a large front gable, east. The stone first
storey has modern glazed door in moulded case with Grosvenor
portcullis carved on lintel and mullioned windows with 2
transoms. Above the door corbels, with 2 coats of arms
between, support a canted 3-storey oriel-bay. The first storey
frieze to the east wing bears shields with the arms of the 12
former shires of Wales. The west bay of the second storey has
a canted oriel under a steep hipped roof; the other windows
have mullions and 2 transoms; leaded glazing in the upper
lights; a band of blank panel tracery and projecting diapers,
relieved with a coat of arms; the third storey has windows
with mullions and one transom, all with basket arches holding
tracery. The Grosvenor arms, centrally placed on the east
wing; 1883 in gilt metal figures; corbel table. The attic
storey has a spire with lead finial over the entrance bay, a
shorter spire west and an elaborate shaped gable to the east
wing with the Grosvenor sheaf, 4 finials and, on the roof
behind, a tapering square belfry with pyramidal roof and lead
finial. 2 shaped chimneys.
The east face to the City Wall is largely brick; windows have
brick mullions, stone transoms and basket-arched upper lights;
an angled oriel; a Tudor-arched door to the wall walk.
INTERIOR not inspected.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
53).

Listing NGR: SJ4069466354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5610635

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)