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© Mr Brendan Oxlade LRPS
IoE Number:
213839
Location:
BANK OF ENGLAND, CASTLE STREET (east side)
LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE
Photographer:
Mr Brendan Oxlade LRPS
Date Photographed:
25 February 2001
Date listed:
28 June 1952
Date of last amendment:
28 June 1952
Grade
I
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SJ 3490 SW CASTLE STREET
(east side)
L2
52/219 Bank of England
28.6.52
G.V. I
Bank building. 1845-8. C.R. Cockerell. Stone. 3 storeys, 3
bays. Engaged giant colonnade, tetrastyle in antis, of an
unorthodox Doric order; rusticated antae. Attic storey with
open pediment containing recessed central window in round-
arched opening, flanked by Ionic columns with entablature
and surmounted by lunette window. Balustrades to all 3
windows. Original 4-panelled doors. Return to Castle
Street of 3 storeys with basement and 7 bays continues the
entablature between 1st and 2nd floors, and also the heavy
bracketed cornice. Its main feature is the 3 great round-
headed recesses to the lower storeys which contain
tripartite windows surmounted by lunettes and heavily
rusticated. Iron balconies to 1st floor windows on both
facades and railings to outer bays at colonnade. Banking
hall is square with tunnel vaulted central aisle and 4 Doric
columns and responds carrying Ionic entablature. One of
Cockerell's richest and most inventive buildings.