Description

PETERBOROUGH
1.
1500
CATHEDRAL SQUARE
(South Side)
Nos I & 3 (Midland Bank )
TL 1998 NW 1/402
II
2.
Includes No 2 Bridge Street.
Dated 1902 on rainwater head. 2 storeys and attics in ashlar with slate
mansard roof with 3 gabled dormers and balustraded parapet. Cupola to
corner with plain half-columns tarter pediments, octagonal in form and with
weathervane. Heavy modillion. eaves cornice to building. 3 blank cartouches
above 3 windows glazing bars. Gibbon rustication with triple keystone. 3
windows on ground floor with round arches, keystones, modern glazing, bays marked
by half columns, bank name on entablature. Full-height pilasters to ends. No
3 in part of the bank premises but is a sympathetic modern extension. No 2 Brige
Street is part of the bank building arid is similar in elevation, with 2 windows
on the lst floor and 1 on the ground. Doomway in quoin is dated 1836, but is
probably later, round-arched, with female supports to cartouche beneath a 3-light
wmndow with half-columns and pediment. The building is included for its very
prominent position and as part of a visual group with other properties in Cathedral
Square.

Listing NGR: TL1920398613

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419887

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)