Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET
595-1/4/358 (North side)
10/01/72 No.30
Barclays Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHGATE STREET
(East side)
Barclays Bank)

GV II

Bank, formerly with Magistrates Court No.3, Northgate Street
(qv) and library of Cathedral (qv), part of the King's School.
c1875. By Sir A Blomfield. Red sandstone; brown tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. Half-glazed oak replaced
double doors in moulded arched opening with carved spandrels
under hoodmould in a projecting porch diminishing at second
storey floor level to a 2 storey canted bay window. The first
storey has a 1-light transomed window west of porch and a
tripartite mullioned and transomed window of 1;4;1 lights with
cusped ogee heads surmounted by paired glazed quatrefoil;
stringcourse at second storey floor; bay window above porch
has 1;3;1 lights with cusped ogee heads and paired glazed
quatrefoils; a cross-window east has cusped arched heads.
Stringcourse beneath crenellated parapet interrupted by attic
bay window of 1;3;1 mullioned lights with ogee cusped heads. A
gabled roof-dormer of timber, east, has cusped head and
arched, moulded bargeboards. Red terracotta ridge.
The rear has stepped buttresses and mullioned and transomed
windows with arched heads, floor and sill-strings, a gabled
traceried attic window, 2 gabled timber roof dormers of 2
lights with cusped arches, close-studded apices and arched
bargeboards; a timber-framed higher blank dormer; a shaped
stone chimney.
INTERIOR has most features covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4054266458

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656971

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)