The Midland Bank

The Midland Bank is a bank building constructed in 1902 by W.B. Brierley of York for the York City and County Bank. It features a grey granite ground floor with ashlar above and a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and has five windows across and six down, with a narrow canted corner bay. The end and corner bays are banded. The intermediate bays are adorned with a giant attached Corinthian Order, topped by a heavy cornice with modillions. The entablature breaks forward at the ends and back at the corners. There is a door, now blocked, located on the angle below an oriel window supported by long brackets. The ground floor displays heavy pulvinated banded rustication, and the windows are deeply recessed beneath mask corbels featuring triple keystones. The first-floor windows also have similar keystones in pilasters, complete with entablatures, bracketed pediments, and balustraded balconies. The second-floor windows are framed with architraves and bracketed sills.