Williams And Glyns Bank

SK4292 ROTHERHAM HIGH STREET (south side) 9/47 Williams and Glyns Bank (formerly listed as No 1) 19.10.51 - II Bank. c1892 by E. I. Hubbard for the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company (press cutting). Ashlar sandstone, polished Aberdeen granite columns, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attics. Corner site with curved corner bay having 5 bays to right facing High Street and 6 bays to left facing Wellgate. High Street facade: plinth with bases for giant Corinthian columns between each bay. Doorway to bay 2 has ¼ colonnettes in the jambs; panel above with raised lettering 'OLD BANK / FOUNDED 1792'; segmental pediment with elements of Sheffield and Rotherham arms in tympanum. Bay 5 has doorway with architrave and plain panel beneath consoled pediment, lst-floor band beneath sash with bracketed, moulded sill and architrave. All other bays recessed and with ground-floor casements having bracketed sills, architraves and pediments; lst-floor band beneath windows as bay 5. Full entablature parapet with dies at bay intervals. Corner bay and bays to Wellgate recessed and in same style except left-hand bay which has pedimented doorway and paired lst-floor window. Left return of Wellgate front has earlier coursed-stone walling beneath white-glazed brickwork. Interior: good original ceiling to banking hall. Manager's office retains C18 bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel. An earlier doorway formerly existed on left return of Wellgate front. Rotherham Advertiser, Jan 9, 1892 (cutting in Rotherham Library)

Listing NGR: SK4295892830