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Barclays Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Millfield, Sunderland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9063 / 54°54'22"N

Longitude: -1.3819 / 1°22'55"W

OS Eastings: 439726

OS Northings: 557012

OS Grid: NZ397570

Mapcode National: GBR VCP.7Z

Mapcode Global: WHD55.RY35

Plus Code: 9C6WWJ49+G6

Entry Name: Barclays Bank

Listing Date: 10 November 1978

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208231

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391449

ID on this website: 101208231

Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1

County: Sunderland

Electoral Ward/Division: Millfield

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sunderland

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Millfield St Mark

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description



SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE FAWCETT STREET
920-1/18/72 (West side)
10/11/78 No.53
Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. 1875. By Austin and Johnson for Wood's Bank. Now
Barclays Bank. Baroque palazzo style. Ashlar with cast-iron
balconies; slate roof.
3 storeys and attics, 5x3 windows. Renewed doors and
semi-circular overlights in end bays of rusticated ground
floor with architraves on impost strings of keyed round-headed
openings; renewed round-headed windows in other bays with
recessed panelled aprons. Giant Corinthian order above, square
pilasters at corners and attached round columns to
intermediate bays, linked by elaborate first-floor cast-iron
balconies. Lugged keyed architraves to first-floor sashes with
glazing bars, keys rising to floor string between pilasters,
and to elliptical-headed second-floor sashes on moulded sills
and aprons. Big top entablature with pulvinated frieze and
modillioned cornice. Hipped roof has side consoles to oeils de
boeuf dormers in central and end bays and taller segment
headed dormers between. Right return has 3 bays in similar
style without doors and with 3 segment headed dormers, and 4
set-back bays with rusticated ground floor having doors in
outer bays and triple-keyed ground floor tripartite windows;
plainer treatment to upper floors with cornices, pediments and
keyed architraves to various windows.
An important corner building, and designed for Woods Bank as
the key to a larger scheme, including the Subscription Library
at No.52 (qv), which was intended to fill a complete block.
(Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle
upon Tyne: 1983-: 21; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland
River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 160).


Listing NGR: NZ3972657012

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