NatWest - Queen Square, Wolverhampton

Banks and building societies in Wolverhampton.

 

Near Queen Square.

 

 

NatWest

 

Grade II listed.

 

National Westminster Bank, Wolverhampton

 

WOLVERHAMPTON

 

SO9198NW QUEEN SQUARE

895-1/11/282 (North side)

03/02/77 No.40

National Westminster Bank

 

GV II

 

Bank. c1905. Ashlar on granite plinth. Edwardian Baroque

style. Symmetrical composition centred on curved corner bay: 3

storeys; 11 bays including 5 bays to Exchange Street. Granite

plinth, chanelled rustication to ground floor and pedimented

end bays of 1st and 2nd floors, which break forward with

applied Ionic arcade between; top entablature, segmental

pediments to end bays have cartouches with monogram: NPB

(National Provincial Bank) and balustraded parapet. Ground

floor has round-headed windows with console keystones,

decorative iron balconies and original fixed glazing. Windows

above have architraves, those to 1st floor have 15-pane

sashes, triple keystones and pediments, segmental to end bays;

those to 2nd floor have 12-pane sashes and aprons. Entrance to

corner bay has Tuscan aedicule with granite columns and relief

decoration to pediment, which supports 2 seated draped figures

flanking cartouche with lettering: ESTBD/1833; entrance to 1st

bay is plain, with cornice and round window above. 3 stacks.

3-bay annexe facing Exchange Street has similar rusticated

ground floor and brick upper floors with stucco architraves.

INTERIOR has Ionic columns, ceiling beams with guilloche

moulding and rear glazed dome.

 

 

Listing NGR: SO9137998712

 

 

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Source: English Heritage

 

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