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Barclays Bank Chambers, roughly on the site of their old offices in Princess Square, were designed by Messrs W Curtis Green RA, Son and Lloyd of St James Street, London, and built by Messrs John Garrett & Sons Ltd of Plymouth.
The new 73 feet long banking hall with its Purbeck marble floor was opened on Friday October 10th 1952.
The architect William Curtis Green was born in 1875 and died in 1960. Among his first important buildings were two generating stations for tramway companies, at Bristol (1899) and Chiswick (1904), and the Painswick Institute (1907).
When Edwin Lutyens first went to New Delhi, he asked Green to take charge of his office while he was away. From 1919 to 1927 he practised on his own and then he established a partnership with his son, Christopher, and his son-in-law Antony Lloyd.
The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane is probably Green's best-known building, although he also worked on domestic buildings, churches, banks and insurance offices.
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Barclays Bank Chambers, roughly on the site of their old offices in Princess Square, were designed by Messrs W Curtis Green RA, Son and Lloyd of St James Street, London, and built by Messrs John Garrett & Sons Ltd of Plymouth.
The new 73 feet long banking hall with its Purbeck marble floor was opened on Friday October 10th 1952.
The architect William Curtis Green was born in 1875 and died in 1960. Among his first important buildings were two generating stations for tramway companies, at Bristol (1899) and Chiswick (1904), and the Painswick Institute (1907).
When Edwin Lutyens first went to New Delhi, he asked Green to take charge of his office while he was away. From 1919 to 1927 he practised on his own and then he established a partnership with his son, Christopher, and his son-in-law Antony Lloyd.
The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane is probably Green's best-known building, although he also worked on domestic buildings, churches, banks and insurance offices.