Building record 7566 - Barclays Bank, St Werburgh Street, Chester

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

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.

<2> Kathryn Sather Associates, 2014, Historic Building Assessment. Barclays Bank, Chester 2014 (Client Report). SCH7715.

Grade II listed 19th century school building built for the pupils of Kings School c 1875 designed by A.W Blomfield and G.G Scott. Built on the site of the former Bishops palace. In use as a school until the 1950s when it was sold to Barclays Bank.