10.30am. Optional pre-walk meeting at Wetherspoon’s Dolphin & Anchor in West Street.
11.00am. PhotoWalk starts at the Market Cross. Built in 1501 by Bishop
Story in Perpendicular style. Take a look at the ornamentation and details
on the cross.
Proceed along East Street to view a succession of Bank
buildings, starting with Nos. 5 & 6 East Street built in the C19 in a late
Gothic style with Gargoyles above the windows and crenellated parapets. Listed Grade
11. In many towns the best architecture in the high street was by the banks.
The National
Provincial Bank of 1929 by F.C.R. Palmer in neo-Georgian style and Barclay’s
Bank of 1961-3 by Green Lloyd & Son
and Stanley Roth.
The Corn Exchange
is a building that you can’t miss with its six column Greek Doric portico and
pediment. Built 1832 by John Elliott.
(Once a McDonalds restaurant now Next).
St Pancras church
in Gothick style of 1750 by William Ride,
interior redone in 1868 by G.M. Hills.
Retrace steps to the cross then turn down South Street. No.
47 Richmond House c1770 and No. 44 of
c1820 in galletted flint and brick, doorway up steps with railings, now RBS
Bank. Listed Grade 11*.
Refreshment stop ?
Turn back up South Street and across to North Street. Contains some interesting buildings including St Olave former church now bookshop. The
Market House by Nash 1807 with a top story of 1900 and hexastyle Doric portico,
recently restored as a stylish retail arcade.
The Council Chamber
and Assembly Rooms. Prominent building in brick, arcade over pavement with
four stone Ionic columns supporting entablature and parapet with figure of a
lion above. Council Chamber 1731 by Roger Morris, Assembly Rooms at rear 1783 by James
Wyatt.
Return to the cross and turn into West Street, view the
Cathedral from a distance (the Cathedral is not included on this PhotoWalk). Look at the Post Office of 1937 by D.N.
Dyke in early C18 style.
2pm. Finish outside the Dolphin
& Anchor C18 and C19 now a Wetherspoon public house.
There are many other buildings of interest in Chichester
that have not been included on this PhotoWalk but can be explored independently.
Down West Street the neo-Georgian County Hall of 1936 by C.G. Stillman is worth a look with a good
doorway, the Crown Court building in South Street also has good doorways.
The Library is an
interesting building of the 1960s? and opposite the library the new Novium may be worth a visit, the
exterior is certainly different from all the Georgian architecture in
Chichester.
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