Old Bank Buildings, Chester

Old Bank Buildings is row of shops and offices in Foregate Street in Chester.

Old Bank Buildings, Chester
Old Bank Buildings, Chester
Location	Chester, Cheshire, England
Coordinates	53.1907°N 2.8886°W / 53.1907; -2.8886
Built	1895
Architect	T. M. Lockwood
Architectural style(s)	Black-and-white Revival
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	10 January 1972
Reference no.	1375795
Location in Cheshire

History

The buildings were designed by T. M. Lockwood and completed in 1895. They are built in brick with applied timber-framing and a tiled roof. The buildings are in three storeys with cellars, and have modern shop fronts in the ground floor. The first floor projects over the pavement and is carried on posts. The top floor and the two gables are jettied with decorative corbels. There is one casement window, the other windows being oriels. On the corner is a timber-framed turret with a cupola.^[1][2] The buildings were initially used by Lloyds Bank^[3] and by Williams Deacon's Bank.^[4]

The buildings became the headquarters of the Cheshire Yeomanry just before the First World War.^[5] The regiment was mobilised at the buildings in August 1914 before being deployed to Egypt^[6] and after the war the buildings were decommissioned and returned to commercial use.^[1]

See also

• Cheshire portal

• Grade II listed buildings in Chester (east)

References

1. Hartwell et al. (2011), p. 271
2. Historic England & 1375795
3. "'Late Georgian and Victorian Chester 1762-1914: The economy, 1871-1914, the limits of reorientation', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography, ed. C P Lewis and A T Thacker". London. 2003. pp. 185–199. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
4. "Old Pubs". Chester Walls. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
5. "Chester". The Drill Hall Project. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
6. "Cheshire Yeomanry (Earl of Chester's)". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

Sources

• Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
• Historic England, "Old Bank Buildings, Chester (1375795)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 2 March 2014