National Westminster Bank Building, Southampton High Street
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National Westminster Bank Building, Southampton High Street
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 6 Jul 2016
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 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1092016&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway). No longer a bank, it is now Fogo Gaucho, a Brazilian churrascaria (steakhouse).
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Image Location
Latitude
50.899566
Longitude
-1.403982