Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW EASTGATE STREET
844-1/8/108 (North side)
12/03/73 No.21
National Westminster Bank

GV II

Bank. 1889 with C20 alterations. By Charles R Gribble of
London for National Provincial Bank. Ashlar. Northern Baroque
style. A large block.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and cellar. Symmetrical front;
on the ground floor an Ionic colonnade of four wide bays with
three-quarter columns applied to narrow piers between
rusticated piers at each end, all with moulded bases on
granite plinths and a crowning entablature; the doorway to the
banking hall in the right-hand bay and a large plain glazed
C20 window in each bay. The upper floors are recessed between
piers at either end to provide a balcony with a wrought-iron
balustrade above the ground floor colonnade; on the first
floor a large central, canted bay with Ionic pilasters applied
to the angles, two French windows to the front of the bay,
single French windows to the canted sides and to the single
bays at either end; above in the centre a pediment, with a
wreath enclosing the initials "NB" in the tympanum; the
central attic dormer, flanked by volutes, has two sashes
framed by pilasters supporting a segmental pediment with a
carved shell in the tympanum.
INTERIOR: not inspected, believed to contain a section of
Roman pavement.
A good example of Gribble's work for the National Provincial
Bank, which forms a good group with No.19 (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8324418502

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561593

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