Midland Bank, Wall And Arches To Left Of Midland Bank

1. CHURCH STREET 5411 (North Side)

Midland Bank. ST 8261 1/226 Wall and arches to left ST 8260 2/226 of Midland Bank

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1. Contiguous with the Catholic Church of St Thomas More in Market Street. Mid C19. 2 storeys plus attics in gables. Ashlar. Slate roofs. One large gable to left and one lesser gable to right over the front. Both gables in Jacobean style with finials, the gable to left supporting balls on pedestals and containing a circular window with elaborate hood over. The left part of the building under the larger gable breaks forward and has a massive oriel window with sloping lead roof rising through a deep cornice. This cornice is a continuation along the Midland Bank of a broken cornice under the clock on the Catholic Church tower, Grotesque masks support the cornice over the oriel window. The oriel itself is supported by 4 large corbels divided by deeply moulded arches which rise over 5 lancets on ground-floor. Extended parchment scroll is carved under the oriel. The window is of 8-lights with mullions and transoms. The windows to right are of 3,4 and 5 lights, also with transoms and mullions. Door to extreme right, set in projecting frame with corbel-table and 3 small lights over. Doorway has 4-centred arch with square-headed hood mould. Large double 6-panel doors. Projecting plinth to whole building. To the left of the front is a wall with eccentric crenellation and 2 arches, the right larger than the left. Both are flattened 4-centred arches with drip-moulds, and label stops with crowned heads. Circular device bearing a shield over the larger opening, and a scroll over the smaller.

All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.

Listing NGR: ST8257161013