Description

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SK3587SW CHURCH STREET
784-1/24/171 (North side)
28/06/73 No.20
National Westminster Bank and
attached offices
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
No.20
District Bank)

GV II

Includes: No.19 Bank House ST JAMES' STREET.
Bank and attached offices. c1880, partly demolished mid C20.
Brick with ashlar dressings, the left return and rear mainly
rendered, with slate and felted roofs with large clustered
coped side wall and ridge stacks, and smaller ridge stack.
Tudor Revival style.
Stone plinth, moulded sillband, string courses, moulded
crenellated parapet. 4 storeys; 3 window range. Windows are
mainly cross casements with moulded stone surrounds and
mullions.
Central canted 3 storey oriel window with its own blind
arcaded crenellated parapet, under a shouldered square gable
with a Tudor arched opening. At first floor level, a canopied
niche with figure, flanked by single light windows. Beyond, on
each side, a 5-light window. Above, similar fenestration with
a central 2-light cross casement, with a framed relief panel
above it. Above again, a central 2-light mullioned window
flanked by single 3-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds.
Ground floor has moulded 4-centred arched doorway with
panelled double doors and fanlight and nodding ogee gable. On
either side, a 4-light window. Canted left corner has a canted
stone 3-light oriel window on the first floor, with an
elaborate traceried crest. Above it, a sundial. Below it, a
plain 3-light window. Rebuilt left return has mainly late C20
fenestration, and to right a plain canted stone oriel window
on the first floor.
Partly demolished rear elevation has a central recess with 2
superimposed 3-light windows, flanked to left by three 2-light
windows on the first and second floors. Ground floor has a
central Tudor arched stone doorcase, flanked to left by a
large 6-light window and to right by 2 small windows and a
2-light casement.

Listing NGR: SK3530687440

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539469

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)