National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank, located on High Street in Doncaster, was designed in 1925 by Walter Brierley. It is a bank constructed from polished granite, ashlar, and red brick, with a Westmorland slate roof. The building is a single storey with a raised central hall. It has seven bays. A deep, horizontally rusticated granite plinth rises to a height of approximately five feet. Above the plinth, the central five bays are recessed and feature engaged Ionic columns between them; the end bays are less recessed and are flanked by Ionic pilasters. The central columns sit on deep plinths, with their tops level with the continuous sill band to the windows. Each end bay has a tall, polished granite doorcase with double-leaf panelled doors in moulded architraves, featuring a guilloche design. Keyed friezes and cornices, decorated with Vitruvian scroll motifs on consoles hung with guttae, appear above. A blocking course tops each doorcase. Above the doors, each end bay features a fixed twelve-pane window set within a keyed, eared, and shouldered architrave with a cornice. Above this is a raised corniced panel, supported by brackets with guttae, and decorated with fruit and foliage swags. Both the window and panel are set within a raised surround with a triple keystone. Bays three and five are similarly treated with larger fixed-pane windows in architraves with swagged panels above, all within raised, triple-keyed surrounds. Flanking bays feature large, semi-circular headed windows with glazing bars, in pilastered surrounds with moulded arches and large stepped keystones decorated with crowned heads. Stepped panels fill the spandrels, and the base has advanced aprons. A large entablature sits above, featuring a dentilled and modillioned cornice. Decorative hopper heads at either end are dated '1925'. Balustraded parapets run along the top, with piers between the bays and at the ends. The roof is raised, with stone-coped gables.

The interior boasts a large central hall with side aisles, an arcade of fluted Ionic columns supporting the central ceiling, and matching Ionic pilasters on the aisle walls. An elaborate moulded and dentilled entablature is topped with a coved ceiling over the hall. Corniced and panelled aisle ceilings complete the space. The windows here have swagged panels above, echoing the exterior design.