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|date=1931-11-14 | |||
|architect=David Nicholas Dyke | |||
|builder=Richard John Barwick | |||
|use=Commercial | |||
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Bexhill Delivery and Post Office was built in 1931 by Richard John Barwick and is a good example of the larger inter-war post offices built by the Office of Works in what came be known as "Post-Office Georgian". The architect of this building was David Nicholas Dyke, who designed a significant number of similar buildings, his Hastings Post Office (1930) on Cambridge Road is on an even monumental scale. | Bexhill Delivery and Post Office was built in 1931 by Richard John Barwick and is a good example of the larger inter-war post offices built by the Office of Works in what came be known as "Post-Office Georgian". The architect of this building was David Nicholas Dyke, who designed a significant number of similar buildings, his Hastings Post Office (1930) on Cambridge Road is on an even monumental scale. | ||
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Built in red brick with limestone dressings Bexhill Post Office has a beautifully decorated doorcase with its triangular pediment and Greek columns. Note also the incorporation of the caduceus motif, the symbol representing Mercury, the messenger of the gods. | Built in red brick with limestone dressings Bexhill Post Office has a beautifully decorated doorcase with its triangular pediment and Greek columns. Note also the incorporation of the caduceus motif, the symbol representing Mercury, the messenger of the gods. | ||
== Gallery == | |||
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Bexhill Post Office - geograph.org.uk - 1989675.jpg|Motif above the main door | Bexhill Post Office - geograph.org.uk - 1989675.jpg|Motif above the main door | ||
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[[Category:Devonshire Square]] | [[Category:Devonshire Square]] | ||
[[Category:1930s]] | [[Category:1930s]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Commercial]] | ||
[[Category:Town Centre Conserv. Area]] | [[Category:Town Centre Conserv. Area]] | ||
[[Category:Central Ward]] | [[Category:Central Ward]] | ||
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| LL ref: | 100 |
| Start date: | 14 November 1931 |
| Architect: | David Nicholas Dyke |
| Builder: | Richard John Barwick |
| Original use: | Commercial |
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Bexhill Delivery and Post Office was built in 1931 by Richard John Barwick and is a good example of the larger inter-war post offices built by the Office of Works in what came be known as "Post-Office Georgian". The architect of this building was David Nicholas Dyke, who designed a significant number of similar buildings, his Hastings Post Office (1930) on Cambridge Road is on an even monumental scale.
David Dyke was arguably the most important Office of Works (OoW) architects designing post offices in the inter-war years, both by virtue of the sheer volume of his work and his architectural prowess which is so evident in his commissions. He began work at the OoW at the eve of the First World War and was completing the last of his projects at the outbreak of the Second War.
Built in red brick with limestone dressings Bexhill Post Office has a beautifully decorated doorcase with its triangular pediment and Greek columns. Note also the incorporation of the caduceus motif, the symbol representing Mercury, the messenger of the gods.
Gallery
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Motif above the main door
