Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL STREET
620-1/12/23 (South side)
05/04/71 Former Corn Exchange and
attached railings

GV II

Former corn exchange, now shopping mall and attached railings.
Dated 1848 on plaque with later additions and alterations
including those c1980s to interior. Reddish-pink brick in
Flemish bond with gauged red brick arches and stuccoed columns
and entablature; concealed roof, with central glass skylight;
cast-iron railings. Single tall storey, 5 bays. Plinth. Giant
Tuscan pilasters to ends and outer 2 bays, to centre are 2
pairs of Tuscan columns in antis. Outer bays have full-height
recesses, 3 with plate-glass windows to ground floor, that to
right an opening with renewed cast-iron gate, above these are
raised and fielded panels and with round-arched 1/1 sashes
with margin lights to upper stage; continuous impost band.
Flight of renewed steps to central entrance: 9-fielded-panel
double doors, panelled frieze and panelled lunette, with
tooled arch and keystone. Crowning entablature surmounted by
balustrade with bulbous balusters and central panel with
raised letters: "CORN EXCHANGE" between 2 plinths with sheafs
of corn. To either side of central door a raised plinth for
railings. Central roof turret, square on plan with pyramidal
roof.
INTERIOR: renewed, retains part-glazed roof with king-post
trusses.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings, L-shaped on plan for
approximately 1.5 metres each side of entrance. Pevsner
describes this as 'a mighty job .. with truly colossal pairs
of Tuscan columns in antis.' A significant nineteenth
mercantile century building occupying a prominent site near
the junction of Angel Street and Angel Place it forms a good
group with The Horn and Trumpet Public House, Angel Street
(qv) and with No.23 and Former Congregational Church (Tramps
Discotheque), Angel Place (qqv). (The Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 331).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Former Corn Exchange And Attached Railings at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26641774

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6