Midland Bank

OLDHAM

SD9204NE UNION STREET 780-1/6/84 (North side) No.109 Midland Bank

GV II

Bank. Dated 1892. By Thomas Taylor. Ashlar faced with Welsh slate roof. French Renaissance style. 2 storeys raised over basement, 4-window range to Union Street. Outer bays slightly advanced, and forming corner pavilion towers, with entrance to left. Porch with polished granite Ionic columns carrying entablature. Round-arched entrance with paired panelled doors within. 2 central windows, divided by a shaft, and a third window in advanced right-hand bay. Round-arched windows to first floor, with moulded architraves to central window, articulated by pilasters with Ionic capitals. Plainer architraves to outer windows with simple moulded frieze. Moulded cornice and blocking course to central range, running between steep hipped roofs of outer pavilion towers, which have shallow pediment to cornice in each face, and are capped with wrought-iron brattishing. Return elevation to Queen Street has similar pavilion at far corner, and 5 window range to banking hall, divided by Ionic pilasters, and with full-height round-arched windows. Similar elevation to Retiro Street with foundation stone recording 'This building was erected by the Oldham Joint Stock Bank Limited. Commenced March 1890. Opened 22 February 1892.' Basement area to Union Street elevation has cast-iron railings with twisted and scrolled decoration, on low plinth wall.

Listing NGR: SD9285804955