Latitude: 52.4786 / 52°28'42"N
Longitude: -1.9077 / 1°54'27"W
OS Eastings: 406363
OS Northings: 286740
OS Grid: SP063867
Mapcode National: GBR 5Y9.ND
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.WYBT
Plus Code: 9C4WF3HR+CW
Entry Name: Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank
Listing Date: 14 October 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268165
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462175
Also known as: Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank
ID on this website: 101268165
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, B1
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Birmingham St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Neoclassicism Bank building
SP 0686 NW BIRMINGHAM BROAD STREET
(south side)
997/32/10167 Former Birmingham
Municipal Bank (TSB)
GV II
Bank. 1931, by T. Cecil Howitt. Portland stone and granite ashlar. Roof concealed.
PLAN: Rectangular plan with entrance, in recessed centre of front behind colonnade, to large rectangular banking hall surrounded by offices. Monumental classical style building.
EXTERIOR: Centre of north front breaks forward With Tetrastyle colonnade of giant Ionic columns in antis with broad terminal piers, flanked by blind rusticated walls with recessed corners, the returns of the recesses have tall and narrow decorative grilles; the entablature has a tall parapet and blind attic above set back, with a carved frieze. Behind the colonnade, 5 bays, the windows with architraves, the ground floor with grilles and with roundels above; central round-arched doorway in moulded architrave with rosettes and with bronze doors and fanlight grille; flanking the doorway ornate bronze lanterns. The side elevations have 1:7:1 bays, the end bays advanced, the windows in moulded architraves, those on ground floor with cornices and pediments on consoles, the tall parapet reduced at the centre to reveal round arched attic windows.
INTERIOR: Large banking hall clad in polished limestone, the arcaded side walls with barley-twist arris mouldings to the arches and with carved roundels above; the front wall has small balconettes and grilles; the ceiling is coffered.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 116.
Listing NGR: SP0636386740
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