Barclays Bank

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE ST WERBURGH STREET 595-1/4/358 (North side) 10/01/72 No.30 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET (East side) Barclays Bank)

GV II

Bank, formerly with Magistrates Court No.3, Northgate Street (qv) and library of Cathedral (qv), part of the King's School. c1875. By Sir A Blomfield. Red sandstone; brown tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic. Half-glazed oak replaced double doors in moulded arched opening with carved spandrels under hoodmould in a projecting porch diminishing at second storey floor level to a 2 storey canted bay window. The first storey has a 1-light transomed window west of porch and a tripartite mullioned and transomed window of 1;4;1 lights with cusped ogee heads surmounted by paired glazed quatrefoil; stringcourse at second storey floor; bay window above porch has 1;3;1 lights with cusped ogee heads and paired glazed quatrefoils; a cross-window east has cusped arched heads. Stringcourse beneath crenellated parapet interrupted by attic bay window of 1;3;1 mullioned lights with ogee cusped heads. A gabled roof-dormer of timber, east, has cusped head and arched, moulded bargeboards. Red terracotta ridge. The rear has stepped buttresses and mullioned and transomed windows with arched heads, floor and sill-strings, a gabled traceried attic window, 2 gabled timber roof dormers of 2 lights with cusped arches, close-studded apices and arched bargeboards; a timber-framed higher blank dormer; a shaped stone chimney. INTERIOR has most features covered.

Listing NGR: SJ4054266458