Number 51 Including Arch And Part Of Wall At Rear

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0416SE THE BANK 770-1/5/201 (West side (off)) 22/02/73 No.51 including arch and part of wall at rear (Formerly Listed as: THE BANK Old arch and portion of wall at rear of No.51)

GV II

Formerly known as: No.51 St Mary's Mission Hall THE BANK. Mission Hall, now job centre. Dated 1901. For the parish of St Mary. C15 inscription and C16 arch in rear wall incorporated into 1901 building. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; rear older rubble with eroded ashlar fragments; roof of Welsh slate with grey ridge tiles and stone gable copings and chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Round-headed vehicle arch at right with voussoirs. Recessed double doors and semicircular 2-pane overlight at left of second bay in surround of rusticated pilasters and segmental cornice. Low segmental heads with voussoirs to cross-casements with upper glazing bars: 2 in first bay, one to right of door, and one in third bay to left of vehicle arch. Taller windows in similar style on second floor, paired in centre, rise through eaves under gablets, the central shaped and containing inscription stone in gable peak. Roof has plain gable copings and end chimneys and central truncated lantern. Rear of vehicle passage has moulded segmental arch at left, above that the eroded inscription, and to right of that in first floor a fragment of carved stone apparently a beak-head string with head corbels. Fragment of stone. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the ashlar inscription previously listed in isolation is described in Boyle's Guide to the County of Durham' as beingin Surtees' day' set in an arch leading to the yard of a house in Thorngate' (the former name of The Bank), but in Boyle's time set in the rear of the house; these stones and another mentioned in the previous list supposedly read: `Ricardus/ Broun, Abbat cui a'i'e' p'picietur Deus'. According to Hutchinson the old house was perhaps the site of the Friary and Chapel founded in 1381 by the Austin Friars. (Boyle: The County of Durham: 1892-: 693-4; Clack: Archaeology in the North. App.A vi ... Barnard Castle: Durham: 1976-: 210).

Listing NGR: NZ0495916177