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A Other 20th Century Buildings i Tourist Of ce II
Listed Building
1 Braille Gerden, (c. 1958) Armada way 10 New George Street group: 18 Civic Centre,
HJW Stirling, City Architect & J Paton Watson, Armada Way/Royal Parade
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PLYMOUTH:
City engineer Boots, (1950-53) H.J.W. Stirling, City Architect (1954-57)
New George Street/Old Town Street succeeded by Allan Ballantyne of Jellicoe Ballan-
2 Martins Bank, (1955-57) 151 Armada Way C. St. C. Oakes, staff architect to Boots Pure tyne & Coleridge (1957-62). Engineer: Ove Arup.
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th Lucas Roberts & Brown Drug Co. Internal glass & artwork: John Hutton, Mary
Marks & Spencer, (1949-51) Adshead, Hans Tisdall & David Weeks
3 Western Morning News Office, (1937-39) 28 Old Town Street (now within Drake Circus
New George Street shopping centre) 19 Crown Courts, (1960-63)
Herbert O. Ellis & Clarke Armada Way/Princess Street
Lewis & Hickey
H.J.W. Stirling, City Architect executed by
Sculptor: E. Bainbridge Copnall
4 Pannier Market, (1956-59) Cornwall Street/
Westminster Bank, (1955-56)
Jellicoe Ballantyne & Coleridge. Stained glass:
Frankfort Gate/New George Street James Powell of Whitefriars Glass
II Walls & Pearn 12-16 Old Town Street
Great Square,
Engineer: Albin Chronowicz Body, Son & Fleury
Armada Way
Murals: David Weeks 11 New George Street, (1955-56)
H.J.W. Stirling, City Architect (from 1954) and
Edgar Catchpole, City Architect and Arthur J. Geoffrey Jellicoe of Jellicoe Ballantyne &
Frankfort Gate, (1955) Ardin Coleridge (1960-62)
Plymouth city centre is the greatest built example of H.J.W. Stirling, City Architect in association with 15-17 New George Street, (1955-56)
Edgar Catchpole, City Architect and
post-War British planning and architecture. The city suffered Sydney Greenwood, John Laing Easiform and
City Engineer. Arthur J. Ardin
20 Barclays Bank, (1949-52)
very signi cant bomb damage in the war and the mayor, Armada Way/Notte Street
19 New George Street, (1954-55) II W. Curtis Green RA, Son & Lloyd.
Lord Astor, appointed Patrick Abercrombie, the most 5 Plymouth Co-operative Society Store, (1950-52) Edgar Catchpole, City Architect and Edward Sculptor: William McMillan
distinguished town planner of the day, to prepare A Plan for New George Street/Raleigh Street/Royal Parade Narracott
Plymouth in 1943. Abercrombie’s plan, with the City W.J. Reed, staff architect to Co-operative
21 Churches:
Engineer, James Paton Watson, swept away all the old Wholesale Society 11 Post Office, (1954)
streets and replaced them with a rational, functionally zoned St. Andrew’s Cross II Baptist Church, (1956-59)
Co-operative Insurance Society, (1960-61) Christopher J. Woodbridge Ministry of Works Catherine Street
grid set about a major axis (Armada Way) running New George Street Louis de Soissons RA & Partners.
north-south from the Railway Station to The Hoe. W.J. Reed succeeded by R.C. Steel
12 National Provincial Bank, (1955-58) Mural: Hans Feibusch.
St. Andrew’s Cross II Unitarian Church, (1955-58)
The new city was on a grand scale in uenced by New Delhi 6 Derry’s Cross group: II B.C. Sherren, staff architect to National Notte Street
in India and Canberra in Australia and by the 19th century Provincial Bank Louis de Soissons RA & Partners.
Plymouth & South Devon Trustee Savings Mural: Jack Pickup.
the Beaux-Arts planning which had re-formed Paris. The city
Bank, (1953-c.1956) 4 Derry’s Cross
authorities embraced the new plan enthusiastically. Alec F. French & Partners 13 Royal Insurance, (1949-53)
Co-operative Building Society, (1955-59) 11 St. Andrew’s Cross 22 NAAFI (Navy Army & Air Forces Institution)
(1949-51) Notte Street/Armada Way
Using some of the best architects of the day, Plymouth was New Oxford House, Derry’s Cross Alec F. French in association with Sir John
Messrs. Joseph
the rst British city to commence reconstruction in April L. Blease, staff architect to Co-operative Burnet Tait & Partners
Building Society
1947 and the rst to open new buildings in 1951. Separate
Wallsend House, (now Lancastrian House) (1955-57) 14 Norwich Union House (1950-52) 23 Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King,
architects, usually working for private developers, designed (1960-62) Notte Street/Armada Way
8-9 Derry’s Cross Old Town Street/Royal Parade II Sir Giles Scott, Son & Partner
all the buildings but the city architect and city engineer and D. Ward & Son Surveyors Donald Hamilton Wakeford & Partners
their advisors, the architects Thomas Tait and William Anglia House, (1951-c.1956)
Crabtree, rigidly controlled their width, height, form and 10 Derry’s Cross 15 Lloyds Bank and Pophams Department Store,
24 Naval Memorial
Hoe Park
materials. F.C. Construction Ltd. of Derby (1955-57) II Sir Robert Lorimer (1920-24) & Edward Maufe
South Western Gas Board, (1950-54) 8-14 Royal Parade (post-1945). Sculptor: William McMillan
12-13 Derry’s Cross Easton & Robertson. Sculptor: Amyas Munday
Plymouth represented the architecture of the future – clean, Whinney, Son & Austen Hall
bright, democratic and, most of all, optimistic. In addition to General Electric Company, (1950-53) 25 Tinside Lido, (1929-35)
Abercrombie’s Plan, there was a number of surviving 20th Union Street
16 St. Andrew’s Church, Hoe Road
Royal Parade II
G2 W.J. Wibberley, City Architect.
century buildings pre-dating the Second World War as well Sydney R. Edwards I Rebuilt by Frederick Etchells (1948-57). Stained
as notable additions that came later to Plymouth. Plymouth Glass: John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens (1958, Other City Centre Buildings
is truly a 20th Century city, it was granted city status in 1928 7 Theatre Royal, (1978-82) Derry’s Cross
1964)
Peter Moro Partnership
and currently has the greatest number of post-war buildings A Colin Campbell House, Colin Campbell Court
(ex- Summerland Street)
listed by English Heritage in the country, outside London. 8 Pearl Assurance House offices, (1950-52) 17 Guildhall,
Barron & Rooke (1938-40)
Royal Parade/Armada Way Royal Parade/Armada Way
Alec F. French in association with Sir John Burnet II Norman & Hine with E. Godwin (1870-74), rebuilt B Gaumont Cinema, Union Street
by H.J.W. Stirling, City Architect (1954-59). W.H. Watkins & Partners (1931)
Tait & Partners
External sculpture: Amyas Munday. Internal C Athenaeum, Derry’s Cross
Walls & Pearn (1958-61)
9 Dingles Department Store (House of Fraser), glass & artwork: F.H. Coventry, David Weeks &
D Royal (now Reel) Cinema, Derry’s Cross
(1949–1951) Wyn George
William R. Glen (1936-38)
Royal Parade/Armada Way
Thomas S. Tait of Sir John Burnet Tait & Partners E Money Centre, May ower Street
Marshman Warren & Taylor (1975)