14-26 King Street, Nottingham
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14-26 King Street, Nottingham
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 17 Jun 2012
By Watson Fothergill, 1895, and exhibiting many of his trademarks. Brick with stone dressings, half-timbered gables and tower, and a variety of window styles. Grade II listed. Built for department store, Jessop & Son, now various shops and presumably offices. Watson Fothergill, or Fothergill Watson as he began life, is Nottingham's Victorian architectural superstar. Walking around the city, it's not long before his idiosyncratic buildings jump out. Drawing on English traditions in a style sometimes labelled as Domestic Revival, his copious use of polychromatic bands of stone, timberwork and carved detail are very distinctive. In lesser hands, a mass of features results in an overwrought jumble, but Fothergill, despite apparently never working outside Nottinghamshire, and rarely even outside the city, was clearly skilled enough to blend everything together successfully. A closer view: Image
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Image Location
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52.954421
Longitude
-1.149437