Barclays Bank

LANCASTER

SD4761NE MARKET STREET 1685-1/7/165 (North side) No.38 Barclay's Bank

GV II

Bank with chambers above. c1900, altered c1980. Probably by Austin and Paley. Ashlar, with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Elizabethan Revival style. Rectangular plan on the corner with New Street. 3 storeys plus an attic, with 3 wide bays to both Market Street and New Street, and a canted bay on the corner. This corner bay contains the entrance to the banking hall. It has a round-headed doorway flanked by shallow Ionic pilasters. Above it there is a 3-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, while the corners on the second floor have octagonal turret-like projections which rise on either side of the gabled dormer; this is pierced by a small circular window and carries a square finial. The Market Street facade has cornices between the storeys, sill bands on the first and second floors and semi-octagonal projections between the bays on the first and second floors, which rise as turrets to flank the 2 gables on the left. The New Street facade is similar, except that the first bay projects slightly on the ground and first floors, and the projections on the second floor are replaced by 2 corbelled flat chimneys which rise to flank a single central gabled dormer. To the right of the second bay on the ground floor is a simple round-headed doorway, now blocked. All the windows have mullions and transoms, mostly of 2 lights, except for those in the first 2 bays on the ground floor of Market Street and the third bay on New Street, which were enlarged c1980 into shop windows with segmental heads. The original ground-floor windows and those in the attic have scrolled aprons. HISTORY: built as a branch of the Bank of Liverpool.

Listing NGR: SD4756661730