Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9422SE PROMENADE
630-1/13/728 (South East side)
14/12/83 Nos.2 AND 4
Midland Bank

GV II

Banking hall. 1880, for the Worcester City and County Bank.
Architect WH Knight. Ashlar with pink granite columns and
slate mansard roof; end brick and ashlar stacks to each range.
Built in a florid French Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 1 (to angle) + 4 first-floor
windows with 2-storey and attic, 3 first-floor window range to
right. Ground-floor windows divided by channelled pilaster
strips ornamented with swagged corbels to cornice over ground
floor, cross mullion windows with decorative carved floral
panels over to ground-floor frieze and with carved panels and
bracket cornices over the first-floor windows. Continuous
carved second-floor sill band. Windows to second floor set in
recesses. Crowning modillion cornice and balustraded parapet
throughout. 2 first-floor oriels to right (one to main range,
one to lower range), capped by coats of arms and strapwork and
have mottoes. Further similar oriel to chamfered corner at
left, with bank entrance beneath between columns with floral
capitals: panelled double doors with blind fanlight. Roof
dormers to attics, those to main range behind balustrade,
otherwise with 2-light mullion-and-transom windows and
pediments. Left return has similar facade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a
tree-lined avenue connecting the Colonnade in High Street to
the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel (qv)).
Forms a group with Nos 6-24 (even) Promenade (qv).
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham:
1993-; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The
Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146).

Listing NGR: SO9495222492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688159

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  Berkshire (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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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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