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CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE EASTGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/4/166 (North side) 10/01/72 Nos.47-57 (odd) Street (Midland Bank) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET Nos.47-57 (Odd) Midland Bank)

GV II

Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank, now Midland Bank. 1883-4. By Douglas and Fordham. Enlarged 1908. Red sandstone and stone-dressed brick with Westmorland green slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 high storeys, in schloss style. The vertically expressed entrance bay has a wing of 2 windows, west, and a 3-window wing with a large front gable, east. The stone first storey has modern glazed door in moulded case with Grosvenor portcullis carved on lintel and mullioned windows with 2 transoms. Above the door corbels, with 2 coats of arms between, support a canted 3-storey oriel-bay. The first storey frieze to the east wing bears shields with the arms of the 12 former shires of Wales. The west bay of the second storey has a canted oriel under a steep hipped roof; the other windows have mullions and 2 transoms; leaded glazing in the upper lights; a band of blank panel tracery and projecting diapers, relieved with a coat of arms; the third storey has windows with mullions and one transom, all with basket arches holding tracery. The Grosvenor arms, centrally placed on the east wing; 1883 in gilt metal figures; corbel table. The attic storey has a spire with lead finial over the entrance bay, a shorter spire west and an elaborate shaped gable to the east wing with the Grosvenor sheaf, 4 finials and, on the roof behind, a tapering square belfry with pyramidal roof and lead finial. 2 shaped chimneys. The east face to the City Wall is largely brick; windows have brick mullions, stone transoms and basket-arched upper lights; an angled oriel; a Tudor-arched door to the wall walk. INTERIOR not inspected. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 53).



Listing NGR: SJ4069466354

External Links

• Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5610635

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