The Corn Exchange And Former Savings Bank

GREAT FARINGDON GLOUCESTER STREET SU 2895 (south side)

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GV II

1863 former Corn Exchange and Savings Bank. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Large one-storey hall with 2-storey front range to Cornmarket all under same roof, plain tiled and hipped to front. Gothic style. Asymmetrical front range, 2 windows to Cornmarket with heavily moulded doorway to left, Gothic arched with quatrefoil opening in tympanum and inscribed scroll over. Statue each side on buttress with small carved canopy over. 3-sided canted oriel over with 1863 date on moulded base. Cusped trefoil window heads with quatrefoil top-lights. Crow stepped small gable over with Gothic attic window under hood-mould. Copper weathervane. The right side, the adjacent canted corner bay and 1st bay of Gloucester Street elevation all similar with 2-light windows each floor, ground floor under segmental arch with carved boss over central mullion and shouldered window heads, 1st floor with carved capital to central shaft, cusped heads and quatrefoil over. Main Hall: 5 windows with buttresses between. Long triple windows with dividing shafts and carved capitals, shouldered heads and carved bosses over shafts. Large plate traceried west window. Attached to west, former Savings Bank, lower one-storey range divided from hall by doorway with shouldered head, hood mould and carved scroll: 'Faringdon Savings Bank 1863'. Crenellated wall over the monogrammed plaque 'FTSB 1818'. Savings Bank with stone tiled roof, 2 large 3-sided bays with mullion and transom windows and crenellated parapets with quatrefoil panels and blank shields.

Listing NGR: SU2879695549