Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CORN STREET, Centre
901-1/16/566 (South East side)
04/03/77 Nos.40 AND 42
Barclays Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
CORN STREET
(South side)
Nos.40 AND 42)

GV II

Bank. c1820. Widened c1925 by WH Watkins. Limestone ashlar,
party walls stacks, roof not visible. Open plan banking hall,
double-depth plan offices above. Late Georgian style. 3
storeys; 7-window range. A near symmetrical front has the E
windows added C20; ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches,
with smaller end doorways set back, rusticated below a plat
band, first-floor sill band, modillion cornice and balustrade
with a central panel inscribed BANK. Doorways have C20 black
granite moulded surrounds and raised cornices, blocked to the
left, double doors to the right, with a narrow semicircular
arch to the left-hand alley; impost blocks to windows with low
cills and C20 glazing. Architraves above with first-floor
console cornices, and horned 6/6-pane sashes; narrow left-hand
windows. The right-hand section of the rear elevation is a mid
C18 roughcast 2-window range with incised lintels to the lower
floors which have 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set to the
left on the ground floor. INTERIOR: banking hall with C20 half
panelling, and plaster decoration with festoon and a round
ceiling panel with modillion cornice, divided by square piers;
right-hand entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch, to a
rear stone cantilevered open-well stair, with wrought-iron
balusters of intersecting curved bars, and a wreathed,
cross-banded rail; panelled shutters.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 251).

Listing NGR: ST5880872981

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586228

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)