National Westminster Bank

NZ 2564 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ST. NICHOLAS' CHURCHYARD (north side) 21/393 No. 10 17.12.71 GV II The rear of No. 26 Mosley Street (q.v.).

NZ 2564 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE MOSLEY STREET 21/393 (south side) 12.11.65 No. 26 (National Westminster Bank) G.V. II Bank. 1870-72 by Gibson for National Provincial Bank. Vermiculate sandstone base- ment; sandstone ashlar with pink granite nook shafts to ground floor openings; Welsh slate roof. Palladian style. Corner building. Basement sloping down to left on hill; 3 storeys, 5 bays and entrance bay set back at right. Rusticated ground has central door with overlight in pedimented doorcase; and in entrance bay, doors in lugged architrave with BANK CHAMBERS incised above. Ground floor round-headed fixed lights with archivolts, impost and sill strings and panelled band beneath. Pedimented Ionic aedicules to first-floor sashes; architraves to those second floor in giant Roman Doric order. Frieze to Mosley Street on right inscribed NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND MDCCLXXI; to Dean Street on left return THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMD ESTABLISHED MDCCXXXIII. High blocking course and tall, corniced, ashlar chimneys. Rear of No.10 St. Nicholas Church Yard.

Listing NGR: NZ2502764069