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Barclays Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Chester, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1919 / 53°11'30"N

Longitude: -2.8915 / 2°53'29"W

OS Eastings: 340533

OS Northings: 366462

OS Grid: SJ405664

Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2S5Z

Mapcode Global: WH88F.K19B

Plus Code: 9C5V54R5+QC

Entry Name: Barclays Bank

Listing Date: 10 January 1972

Last Amended: 6 August 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1376394

English Heritage Legacy ID: 470389

ID on this website: 101376394

Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Chester

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

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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

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