2016

SU4211 : Former National Westminster Bank, Southampton High Street

taken 8 years ago, near to Southampton, England

Former National Westminster Bank, Southampton High Street
Former National Westminster Bank, Southampton High Street
Originally built in 1867 by in an Italionate style for the National Provincial Bank. The building has a narrower main frontage to High Street with a longer return elevation of 7 bays to St Michael's Street. It is faced in varied stonework with brown to white tints. The round-headed recessed entrance is flanked by ionic columns supporting an entablature hood on scroll brackets with a large sculptured coat of arms above incorporating statuary of female figures, lions and stags.

the building is grade II*-listed (Historic England List Entry Number: 1092016 LinkExternal link Heritage Gateway).

No longer a bank, it is now Fogo Gaucho, a Brazilian churrascaria (steakhouse).

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SU4211, 889 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 6 July, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 26 July, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 420 112 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:53.9739N 1:24.2389W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 420 113
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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