Barclays Bank

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/16/566 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.40 AND 42 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (South side) Nos.40 AND 42)

GV II

Bank. c1820. Widened c1925 by WH Watkins. Limestone ashlar, party walls stacks, roof not visible. Open plan banking hall, double-depth plan offices above. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. A near symmetrical front has the E windows added C20; ground-floor arcade of semicircular arches, with smaller end doorways set back, rusticated below a plat band, first-floor sill band, modillion cornice and balustrade with a central panel inscribed BANK. Doorways have C20 black granite moulded surrounds and raised cornices, blocked to the left, double doors to the right, with a narrow semicircular arch to the left-hand alley; impost blocks to windows with low cills and C20 glazing. Architraves above with first-floor console cornices, and horned 6/6-pane sashes; narrow left-hand windows. The right-hand section of the rear elevation is a mid C18 roughcast 2-window range with incised lintels to the lower floors which have 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set to the left on the ground floor. INTERIOR: banking hall with C20 half panelling, and plaster decoration with festoon and a round ceiling panel with modillion cornice, divided by square piers; right-hand entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch, to a rear stone cantilevered open-well stair, with wrought-iron balusters of intersecting curved bars, and a wreathed, cross-banded rail; panelled shutters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 251).

Listing NGR: ST5880872981