National Westminster Bank

SD3317SE 664-1/12/117 15/11/72

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LORD STREET (East side) No.130 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: LORD STREET/ST GEORGE'S PLACE Westminster Bank)

GV II

Includes: National Westminster Bank ST GEORGE'S PLACE. Bank. 1892, altered. By William Owen, for Parr's Bank. Sandstone ashlar, green slate roof. Free Renaissance style. Rectangular plan on corner site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2:3:2 windows (1:3:1 bays). Symmetrical composition with a pilastered 3-bay centre slightly recessed between gabled end bays; channelled rustication to both floors, a frieze between floors, a moulded cornice and pierced strapwork parapet to the centre with 2 urns, and end bays with tourelles and Dutch gables. The 3-bay centre has a round-headed doorway and windows at ground floor, all with stepped surrounds and keystones (formerly cross-windows but now with plate glass), and square-headed cross-windows at first floor with balconies and cornices on consoles. The outer bays each have one large round-headed opening at ground floor: a recessed window to the left with a pilastered surround and altered glazing, and a doorway to the right with a semicircular hood on square vase-baluster pilasters, and altered doors. Pair of narrow transomed windows at first floor with segmental pediments; and an oculus in the gable with foliated surround. The right-hand return (to London Street) has 1:1:3 bays, the second bay gabled, in matching style but without doorways. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with War Memorial in London Square (qv), and with Post Office to left (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3374117361