National Westminster Bank

BURNLEY

SD8432SW GRIMSHAW STREET 906-1/20/62 (North side) 29/09/77 No.10 National Westminster Bank

GV II

Bank. 1876. By William Waddington & Son. For the Manchester and County Bank. Sandstone ashlar with fishscale slated mansard roof. Florid Florentine style. Square plan on corner site, with splayed corner to Nicholas Street on the left. EXTERIOR: single storey with cellar and attic, 4 bays to each facade; with a 2-stage plinth, chunky fluted bands, emphatic bracketed and modillioned eaves cornices, parapets pierced with roundels and surmounted by gadrooned urns, and corniced and pedimented central and terminal features. The corner entrance is a tall round-headed archway with polished granite columns which have composite capitals of sandstone, carrying a richly decorated arch with a helmed figured keystone, and has a doorway with panelled convex double doors, cresting in the overlight, an enriched frieze and a tympanum containing a carved shield with raised lettering "NEC TIMIDE NEC TEMERE". Each facade has arcaded round-headed windows with fluted aprons, prominent sills on consoles, fluted imposts and enriched moulded heads with carved keystones, and roundel wreaths between the heads of the windows. The roof has tall cast-iron finials with animals. INTERIOR: square banking hall with oak panelled dado and elaborate carved oak architraves to internal doorways; walls above dado faced with white marble, with plain green marble surrounds to windows; coved and coffered ceiling with plastered cruciform beams and a large roundel in each panel; otherwise, altered. Internally linked to later addition on Nicholas Street. Forms a group with No.9 Grimshaw Street opposite (qv), the former Burnley Building Society (No.19 Parker Lane (qv)) to the east, and with the terraced town houses on Nicholas Street to the west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8412432426