Description

TA0928NE
680-1/22/323

KINGSTON UPON HULL
QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE (North side)
Former Yorkshire Bank

(Formerly listed as Yorkshire Bank)

GV II

Former Bank. 1898. By BS Jacobs. Brick with faience front, terracotta
dressings and granite plinth, with plain tile mansard roof and
single brick gable and rear wall stacks. Renaissance Revival
style. String courses, moulded main cornice, coped parapet. 3
storeys plus attics; 9x5 windows. Acute angled corner site.
Corner entrance has an octagonal oriel window, 3 storeys, with
3 plain windows of diminishing sizes on each floor. Above the
parapet, a drum tower with dentillated cornice, round windows
and keystones, divided by strapwork pilasters. Conical tile
roof with 4 gabled dormers, topped with octagonal domed
lantern with ball finial. On ground floor, a round-arched
doorway with grille to overlight and pair of panelled doors,
set in a pilastered surround with pediment on curved brackets.
Left front, to Savile Street, has round-arched single-pane
windows with transoms, keystones and enriched spandrels,
arranged 3:2:2:2 and divided by heavily rusticated pilasters
under a pulvinated frieze and cornice.
Second floor has smaller flat-headed windows similarly
arranged, divided by paired pilasters and each with a
triangular pediment. Attic storey has panelled parapet with
pedestals topped with urns, and 4 shouldered pedimented
dormers each with a 2-light casement. Ground floor has 4
moulded round-arched openings each with a transomed 3-light
window with glazing bars in the upper lights. The left window
is altered to contain a C20 door with sidelight.
Right front, to New Cross Street, is of similar design, with 5
windows on the upper floors, 2 dormers, and 2 ground-floor
windows. On the ground floor, to right, a small pedimented
window with a round window above it.

Listing NGR: TA0965028808

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513605

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)